Olympia Snowe Quotes

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

Olympia Snowe

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
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• I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

  

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• My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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  • Environment
  • Care

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
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  • Know
  • For Him

• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • America
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• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • College
  • Football
  • Religion

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
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• Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
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• Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.

  

  Jack Kingston
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• I can't even consider the prospect of grandchildren because I don't know if there will be anything left for them on Earth. That's how serious the problem is. We can't drink the water or breathe the air, and we're all dying from some sort of cancer. How many generations can sustain that? It frightens me terribly.

  

  Patti Davis
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  • Water
  • Serious

• There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Attitude

• Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

  

  George P. Shultz
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• Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • People
  • Thinking
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• You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Work
  • America
  • Color