Raul Labrador Quotes

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

Raul Labrador

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• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • American
  • Mom

• I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

  

  Harland Williams
  • American
  • Pride
  • Citizen

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • American
  • Think
  • Society

• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Prove

• An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • American
  • Want
  • Attitude

• The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • World
  • American
  • Government

• On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • Think
  • Way

• Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • American
  • Small
  • Theatre

• You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • American
  • Help
  • Single

• We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Good
  • American
  • Black

• I want people to understand that we, the American people, are not each other's enemies. The real enemies are those people who are trying to divide us into every little possible group.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • American
  • History

• Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war Vietnam, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.

  

  Colin Powell
  • People
  • American
  • War

• Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS during his attack, the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American

• My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads, 'I'm With Her.' I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads, 'I'm with you - the American people.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Different
  • American

• Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the 'war on terror,' have expanded their operations to include American citizens. I was 'terrorized' when I learned that the National Security Agency was intercepting information on Americans.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • American
  • War

• The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • Up
  • American
  • House

• The American Pie success has been so wonderful for me, but it's also locked me into a certain type of role. It's limited my options.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • American
  • Success

• On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Help
  • Me
  • Day

• When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Scripture
  • Incomprehensible
  • Schoolman

• Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Living
  • Texas
  • Mexican

• The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Peace

• I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

  

  Raul Labrador
  • American
  • Prove
  • Fortunate