Sam Brownback Quotes
The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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To lead people walk behind them.
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I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
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I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
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I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.
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I'm not in favour of the army, I'm in favour of replacing it with armed workers' brigades to defend the factories.
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You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.
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I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.
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We left the guns hidden in the car and tried walking into the polling place again, and the mob blocked us again. We didn't pursue it.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
