John Boehner Quotes

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
  • Run
  • Been

• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Never
  • Person
  • Congress

• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Breakfast
  • Short
  • Lunch

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Guy
  • White
  • Next

• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Just

• I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Race

• The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Work
  • Know
  • End

• We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • You

• 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

  

  Feist
  • Mind
  • End
  • Songwriting

• As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Love
  • History
  • Violence

• Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Chance
  • Give
  • Him

• Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Advantage
  • Realise
  • Self-Sacrifice

• I don't want to spend my time thinking about somebody else, I want to spend my time just being me and embracing life and living it and being there. At the end of the day, I'm responsible for my words and my thoughts and that's how I live.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Time
  • Responsible

• We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.

  

  Jeanne Shaheen
  • World
  • Women
  • Family

• Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global gag rule means so much to me, that the United States wouldn't stand up for the rights and health of women.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Life
  • Ignorance

• Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

  

  John Boehner
  • Health
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