Jan Schakowsky Quotes
We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.
Quotes to Explore
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.
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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.
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We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.
