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Paul Broun Quotes

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

Paul Broun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 14, 1946

Topics

Justice Government Constitution Think

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Jimmy Carter

Leadership Myself Down Done Way

If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.

Joe Bastianich

Good Food You Routine Run Risk

Rodeo careers can end without warning, as quick as the next try at an eight-second ride.

John Branch

Ride End Try Quick Without Warning

I walk down the street; the garbagemen will shout at me, and we'll talk. That's a pleasure when people feel, 'If he can do it, I can, too.'

Melvin Van Peebles

Walk People Me Feel Down I Can

To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom we saw each one. I even remember the second and third time I saw his films.

Andre Aciman

Time Impossible Remember Seen Saw

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

Angus Deaton

World Sometimes Hard Out Things

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

Ann Cleeves

Work Experience Imagination Step Go

I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

Sondre Lerche

Work Simple Song Down Messed Up Try

I think marriage can sometimes turn things into a business. It stops being about feelings.

Romeo Santos

Marriage Business Think Feelings

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Mike Quigley

Leadership Women Political Rights

I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.

Martina Navratilova

Walk Competition Waiting Start Doing

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

Mickey Spillane

Father Mother Me Always Names Got