Van Jones Quotes
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.
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I never dread going back to Congress.
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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 have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.
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Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the Clean Air Act is really - that there are all sorts of presumptions in favor of the environmentalists.
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I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
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When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
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I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.
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Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
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A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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I believe the Congress - as a coequal branch of government - must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.
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We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.
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I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
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My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
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I'm a big Letterman fan.
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
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Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.
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So far as travel advice to Kenya is concerned, it already warns of possible dangers and we will be reviewing that straight away.
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As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.
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Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.
