Ken Buck Quotes

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

Ken Buck

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• I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Happy
  • Moments

• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Think

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Creativity

• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • Big
  • Seeing

• Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Find

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

  

  Halsey
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Art
  • Business
  • Think

• While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Change
  • Target
  • Unions

• I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • House
  • Dad
  • Myself

• I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

  

  Beck
  • Done
  • Me
  • Couple

• As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Company
  • Teenager
  • Him

• It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Great
  • Money
  • Man

• I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • People
  • Money
  • Black

• Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Money
  • Guy

• I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Money
  • Business
  • Deal

• When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

  

  Ken Buck
  • Money