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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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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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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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.
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Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.
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I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
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Well, I have gotten by twenty-seven years, so that is something. I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.
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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.
