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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I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.
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Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.
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I was frustrated at myself, not with the team. I was trying to keep the team in the game so that they could come back from behind.
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When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.
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When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
