Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
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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 started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
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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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I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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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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Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.
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My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.
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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
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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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The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.
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We are all saying no blank check to China, ... We have to be very clear to (Congress) about how important their vote is going to be.
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We hope that the Congress will act speedily.
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The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that's one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] Obama takes it out. He had cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, even though Congress had appropriated. It is injured women who are the poorest of the poor.
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I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.
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I've had a lot of typewriters that I've had relationships with; one still has a piece of masking tape that says "$8" on it. I love working on them. I can't fix a computer or a car, but I can fix a typewriter. I like them because you can write on them late at night, depending on what you're fortifying yourself with, and the next morning you can still figure what you wrote.
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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.
