Kevin McCarthy Quotes

For years now, long before I became House majority leader, I have been passionate about foreign affairs because I believe that anyone who leads in Washington must appreciate the significance of America's role in providing for global security and prosperity.

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Long
  • Now
  • Racing

• I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Growth

• Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Government
  • Promise
  • Generation

• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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  • Women

• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
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  • Experience

• I believe that first impressions are very important.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Believe
  • Important

• NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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  • History
  • Romantic

• As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • America
  • Together
  • History

• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Long
  • Search

• As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.

  

  Vicente Fox
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  • Economy
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• I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

  

  Adam Carolla
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  • Pretty
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• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
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  • Attitude

• There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

  

  Carl Honore
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  • Together
  • Food

• Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

  

  Irving Kirsch
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  • Run
  • Therapy

• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • House
  • Play
  • Fire

• Americans have the right to say what they believe. But with that right comes the responsibility to respect our neighbors, respect law enforcement, and obey the laws.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Respect

• Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.

  

  Mark V. Hurd

• I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Business
  • Tired

• I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Time
  • Picture

• Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Work

• For years now, long before I became House majority leader, I have been passionate about foreign affairs because I believe that anyone who leads in Washington must appreciate the significance of America's role in providing for global security and prosperity.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Believe
  • Long
  • America