Tom Vilsack Quotes

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

Tom Vilsack

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I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.

Joel Kinnaman

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Low interest rates benefit individuals or investors who own or want to buy assets; in that regard, they disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.

John Delaney

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But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

Maynard James Keenan

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As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

John M. Grunsfeld

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You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Michael Chabon

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If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country.

Stephen Baldwin

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You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation.

Martti Ahtisaari

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The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

Michael Novak

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It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent.

Mitch McConnell

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Talking to someone you have a crush on is as scary as fighting a super-villain.

Jon Watts

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Always, ever since I was a little girl, my house has been basically a zoo.

Christina Applegate

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