Norman Ornstein Quotes
Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.
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I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.
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Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
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A lot of magic happens when you put out a publicity release. I have launched many products with the money I got back from my publicity release.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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I was at Woodstock. In the mud.
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Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.
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Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.
