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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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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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.
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There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
