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Dick Durbin Quotes

Progressives should be willing to talk about ways to ensure the long-term viability of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, but those conversations should not be part of a plan to avert the fiscal cliff.

Dick Durbin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 21, 1944

Topics

Plan Security Talk Cliff Long-Term

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

Jerry Hall

Old-Fashioned Very Tastes

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

John Erskine

Leader She Up Where Who Knows

One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.

Max Weber

Responsibility Follow Cannot He Ends

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

John Sergeant Wise

Business People Me Slavery Opinion

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

Sting

Life Creative Me Sadness My Life

If you are a plane-spotter, and you are interested in the history of a particular aircraft, you know there are many documents publicly available: registration papers and airworthiness certificates from the FAA. You can also get flight data from the FAA.

Trevor Paglen

History Data You Flight Know Get

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Robert Duvall

Music Influence America Back Country

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

Jason Statham

Father Now Run Singer Used He

I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.

Dominic Chianese

Hope Great Man Think Play Achieve

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Desmond Tutu

Stand You Out Shoulders Crowd Only

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.

Brian Cox

Work Ambition Doing Enjoy Acting

I'm not a true vegan.

Anthony Kiedis

True Vegan