Richard Parks Bland Quotes
I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.
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I never dread going back to Congress.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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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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Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
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Behold, I make all things new.
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I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
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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 are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
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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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God sent us here to make mistakes.
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Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.
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If I were the president, I'd call the Congress back on the second of January to finish the work, ... I plan to have a talk with the president today.
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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
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The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept.
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I think you have to take these numbers with a grain of salt, ... What this all means is really very hard to determine.
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Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
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I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.
