Jan Schakowsky Quotes

I've fought to close the gender and racial pay gap for a very long time. One piece of advice I like to give whenever I'm speaking on the subject: if you want equal pay, join a union! I've never seen a union contract that pays women 79 cents to a man's dollar.

Jan Schakowsky

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In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.

Joe Garcia

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We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

Jill Lepore

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Nobody's perfect, but I hold myself accountable. I think about the choices I make because they not only affect me, they affect all of my fans and my family.

Joey Lawrence

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I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.

John Boehner

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I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to.

Jennifer Wyatt

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I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.

Jenna Fischer

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Sport is one way of keeping kids off their phones.

Ann Makosinski

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Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.

Stephen Malkmus

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I'd rather be on the cast of 'Love & Hip-Hop' than 'Project Runway.'

Solange Knowles

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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

Miranda Cosgrove

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Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Jonathan Sacks

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