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Spencer Bachus Quotes

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

Spencer Bachus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 28, 1947

Topics

Community Storm Development Housing

We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf.

Jill Stein

Government War Acting Need Industry

I didn't want to turn into Martha Stewart. I wanted to turn into a more organized, more gracious me. And that truly has happened.

Jen Lancaster

Me Want More Turn Organized Wanted

Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception.

Maximillian Degenerez

Character Listening Tools Person

My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.

John Lautner

Work Father Mother Vacation Doing

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Jeffrey Archer

Hope Moving On Moving Prison Two

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Andy Hertzfeld

Leadership Good Passion Great Think

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.

Tony Harrison

Family Poetry Me Speak Try Need

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

Mason Cooley

Success Good Sleep Sound Ask Forgot

It's not really a popular consensus to sing Sinatra - which I love! And I just think it's so cool that he disliked rock n' roll so much.

Brendon Urie

Love Cool Think Rock Consensus Sing

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

Bobby Scott

Think Worry Security Tax First

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

Richard Wilbur

Great Mind Self Better Back True

When great powers fade, as they inevitably must, it's normally for one of two reasons. Some powers exhaust themselves through overreach abroad, underinvestment at home, or a mixture of the two. This was the case for the Soviet Union. Other powers lose their privileged position with the emergence of new, stronger powers.

Richard N. Haass

Home Great Stronger Lose New Fade