Roger Altman Quotes

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

Roger Altman

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I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.

Jill Greenberg

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He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.

John Brough

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The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker's name. 'You know how it is,' my father said, 'they all look the same. It's not your mom's fault. There's just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.'

Jenny Zhang

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Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city.

John James Audubon

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It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

Jean-Louis Trintignant

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Everyone experiences different parts of themselves at different times, these different parts of themselves that come out in different settings.

Amandla Stenberg

EveryoneOutExperiencesDifferent

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

Tom Harkin

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In order to get a FISA warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career law enforcement officer who swears the information is true... And if it is wrong, that person is going to face consequences.

Rod Rosenstein

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What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

Rudy Giuliani

GreatOptimismBuildingAmericaDown

I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

Lisa Murkowski

ChangeResponsibilityMoneyEnergy

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

Jonah Goldberg

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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Dick Schaap

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