Sharron Angle (Sharron Elaine Angle) Quotes

I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

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• No future can be beautiful which involves an economy that violates the rights of future generations, that degrades fundamental planetary systems in any way, or that fails to offer every human being a basic share of safety, dignity and happiness.

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Future
  • Beautiful
  • Safety

• I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Future
  • Present

• The FCC's job is not to put a finger in the wind and decide which way the winds are blowing; it's to look at the facts and make a sober judgment based on what the law is.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Job
  • Law
  • Wind

• All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

  

  Martin Buber
  • God

• There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Life
  • Things
  • Enough

• It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Interesting

• Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.

  

  Confucius
  • Glory
  • Received
  • Teachings

• Don’t exclude others just because they disagree with you on many things. Such strife smells of and breeds disunity. Instead, allow the sweet aroma of the gospel to draw others to you and into the House of God, where they may also meet the One who saved you.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Gospel
  • Strife
  • Breeds

• There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Book
  • Author

• With thy coming Melody was come. This was thy lot, to feel, create, bestow, And that immeasurable life to know From which the fleshly self falls shrivelled, dead, A seed primeval that has forests bred.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life

• That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

  

  Aristotle
  • Society
  • Political
  • Individual

• Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Liberty
  • Legislators
  • Revolutionaries

• I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Legislators
  • Diplomats
  • Political Leaders

• So many state Republican governors and legislators are defunding Planned Parenthood and shutting down clinics that not only provide a safe abortion but HIV testing, cancer screenings, and so much else that women have every right to access, which is harder if you are unemployed or you are a low-income woman that's part of the real service that Planned Parenthood provides.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Legislators
  • Planned Parenthood
  • State Republican governors

• Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

  

  Bergen Evans
  • President
  • Leader
  • Movement

• If people vote to get rid of this, they're only going to pay more later, ... We are putting ourselves at risk. It is that bad -- otherwise citizen legislators would not have voted for a tax increase. It doesn't help them to vote for a tax increase, but they saw a real danger.

  

  Ed Murray
  • Risk
  • Danger
  • Vote

• I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

  

  Sean Kingston
  • People
  • Always
  • Down

• It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted.

  

  Michael Schiavo
  • Wanted
  • About
  • Legislators

• I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Conservative
  • Senators
  • Legislators

• Les êtres humains avouent leurs pires faiblesses quand ils s'étonnent qu'un maître du monde ne soit pas sottement indolent, présomptueux, ou cruel.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Up
  • Great
  • Pretty

• They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Recluse
  • Rapist

• I was actually grateful for being arrested, for the judge that promised me that I would go to prison if I didn't stay clean, because I listened to him and something clicked. Those two years when we were making album "Ultra" and I had to go back and forth to court to prove to the judge that I'd stayed clean, it gave me this time to suddenly realize, "Oh, I can do this, I can crawl my way back, I can get better. And I do want to be here."

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Judge
  • Grateful
  • Prison

• I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Legislators