Paul Tonko Quotes

Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our nation's seniors is not the right approach.

Paul Tonko

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I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

John Byrne

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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

Robert Kennedy

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Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day.

Max Azria

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Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

John Podhoretz

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I started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't.

Ruth Rendell

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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Marya Mannes

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People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.

Matt Besser

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Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna.

Mary H.K. Choi

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When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.

Lloyd Alexander

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The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

Douglas Alexander

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I won't think about what people will say, even when I am actually seeing someone. Somebody will say something, then someone else will contradict it. I can't keep chasing all of them and try and correct everyone.

Arjun Kapoor

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I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.

Antoine Fuqua

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