Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes
When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
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Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The symbolism was in - and this sounds really, really small, but it's actually big for African-Americans - the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
