Jason Chaffetz Quotes

The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.

Jason Chaffetz

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• As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Important
  • Game
  • Lawyer

• Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Energy
  • Growth

• It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Power
  • Balance
  • Judge

• Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Women
  • Water

• Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Dying
  • Try
  • Medicine

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Moving
  • Legacy
  • Saying

• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Success
  • Story
  • Achieve

• I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Pretty
  • Child
  • I Love You

• From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Happy
  • Retired
  • Racing Driver

• I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Kid
  • Big
  • Collector

• As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Always
  • Brain

• Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Pretty

• In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Learning

• I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I'm surfing if I'm not already playing a game at night.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Game
  • Night
  • Surfing

• I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Know
  • Possible

• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Black
  • Player
  • Win

• It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Book

• If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Memories
  • Movies
  • Dreams

• The funny thing is, we teach - as a culture, we teach people that it's OK to talk about your fitness goals... Like, I want to be more physically fit, I want to drop 10 pounds, but no one's talking about how I can spend 10 days to get happier.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Culture
  • Funny

• And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Lost
  • Road

• Oh yea, I was a conservative. I was probably hard-line, preoccupied with how much money I would make and how far I would go. But I began seeing a lady who directs a homeless clinic in Fargo. One of our first get-togethers was to a Salvation Army dinner, where I met some jobless Vietnam veterans. It started my transition, opened my eyes.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Money
  • Eyes
  • Army

• The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.

  

  Jason Chaffetz