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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But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.
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If someone's performance is down we do not say, 'Hey pick up your things here.' We do not yell and scream at them, we say, 'Are you okay?' The idea of putting our financials goal aside for one minute to express empathy for the human being for that work and saying, 'Are you okay?' That is part of the sacrifice.
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My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.
