Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

Raja Krishnamoorthi

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• I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Congress
  • Southern
  • Six

• I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Me
  • Model
  • New York

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Fashion
  • Everything
  • Decided

• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • College
  • Decided

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Me
  • Care
  • Congress

• 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.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • Years
  • Changes
  • Congress

• 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.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Business
  • Air
  • Creating

• I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Congress
  • Equal

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Grateful
  • Congress

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Middle-class
  • Upbringing

• 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.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• I believe the Congress - as a coequal branch of government - must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Practice

• The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Law
  • Causes
  • Decided

• 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.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Important
  • Vote
  • Congress

• We hope that the Congress will act speedily.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Hope
  • Congress

• 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.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • Hope
  • Rule

• Donald Trump is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans, you're going to see investigations, subpoenas.

  

  Norman L. Eisen
  • Congress
  • Investigations
  • Subpoena

• In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Life
  • Man
  • Poverty

• If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

  

  Euripides
  • Evil
  • Gods

• The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Democracy
  • Belief
  • Crime

• I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Cool
  • Player
  • Players

• I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Congress
  • Decided
  • Middle-class