Doug Elmendorf (Douglas William Elmendorf) Quotes
On the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
-
I've never been one to run from a challenge.
-
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
-
It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
-
A new era of responsibility is here.
-
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
-
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
-
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
-
The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
-
I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
-
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
-
The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
-
Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.
-
My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.
-
I try personally not to be nostalgic.
-
My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
-
'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
-
When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
-
The only relationships I wish to honour and keep are with my family and my dear loved ones.
-
I love being on stage more than anything, and I think that's what comes across. I think the most honest representation of any music is to play it right there in front of people. It's a moment - it's all one of a kind, every little part of it. There's no repeat.
-
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
-
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
-
Parents must lay down ground rules for their children to help them to grow up and to learn responsibility for their actions. They must learn to stand on their own two feet.
-
On the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.
