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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For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
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Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.
