Dave Obey Quotes

Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes.

Dave Obey

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• To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Peace
  • Achieve
  • Guns

• Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Learning
  • Yourself
  • Hunting

• I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Real
  • Me
  • Day

• I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Myself
  • Pride
  • Honor

• All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.

  

  Baltasar Garzon
  • Done
  • Job
  • Doing

• I definitely enjoy my time by myself - and that's kind of the weird thing about touring; you're kind of constantly surrounded by people - but I actually do enjoy going out and doing things and being around people.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• After my first video, I went out and had chicken noodle soup with my sister and manager. We were like, 'How rock n' roll are we? Celebrating the first video with chicken soup.'

  

  Fleur East
  • Rock
  • Sister
  • Soup

• As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Country
  • Death
  • Know

• There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Truth
  • Find
  • Naked

• Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Color
  • Say
  • Yellow

• But the challenge must be faced squarely. I believe we can overcome it through our own efforts. We must do so. They key is our national power. Take courage from our national pride and traditions, no matter how thorny the road to independence may be.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Believe
  • May
  • Power

• The process is so complicated that it offers ever so many occasions for running abnormally.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Running

• 'You're really, truly not going to kill everyone?' asked Marek. 'No!' shouted Arthur. 'Why do you keep asking? Do I look like some kind of crazy murderer?' 'No...' Marek sounded as if he did still think that but didn't want to upset Arthur.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Why
  • Crazy

• Vladimir Putin is a thug and a killer who in the grand tradition of Russian autocracy has no intention ever of holding free elections.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Free
  • Thug

• I enjoy fighting, but my family says, 'Stop, no.'

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Family
  • Stop
  • Fighting

• Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

  

  Fritz Kreisler
  • Wife

• Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • Music
  • Amazing

• Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Children
  • Parents

• The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Night
  • Desire
  • Star

• Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Author
  • Musician
  • Products

• The U.N. must have adequate resources and the right capabilities to fully engage in global peacekeeping.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Resources
  • Capabilities
  • Peacekeeping

• He said within his soul, ''This is the end: O'er all the earth to where the-heavens bend And hem men's travel, I have breathed my soul: I lie here now the remnant of that whole, The embers of a life, a lonely pain; As far-off rivers to my thirst were vain, So of my mighty years nought comes to me again'.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Soul

• Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes.

  

  Dave Obey