Tammy Baldwin Quotes
I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I have always loathed working out.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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My dad dedicated his life to getting across the wildlife message, and I love that I can carry on his legacy. I want to make sure his message never dies.
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Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.
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Retired life's good, man.
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It takes a certain personality to thrive as a member of the House.
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I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
