Luis Gutierrez Quotes

I remember clearly the afternoon I sat down with Obama. In December 2006, he was preparing for a family trip, and the decision to run weighed heavily on his mind. As a progressive member of Congress from Illinois, I was excited and energized by the prospect of my senator, and my friend, running for president.

Luis Gutierrez

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Government

• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • History
  • Culture
  • Debate

• My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Great
  • Office

• Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Style
  • Successful

• I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Fiction

• I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Woman

• Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • You
  • Stronger
  • Crisis

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Want
  • Care
  • Caring

• Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Time
  • Luck
  • Right Time

• If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Love
  • Player
  • Numbers

• The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Perception

• My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Way
  • Style
  • Vintage

• I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Mistake
  • Cutting
  • Rooms

• For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Free

• In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger or trends. But polls can also be used to wag the dog - diverting attention from something significant.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Attention
  • Dog

• I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I remember clearly the afternoon I sat down with Obama. In December 2006, he was preparing for a family trip, and the decision to run weighed heavily on his mind. As a progressive member of Congress from Illinois, I was excited and energized by the prospect of my senator, and my friend, running for president.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Remember