Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.Charles B. Rangel
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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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I am not interested in splitting the white vote.
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For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.
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The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.
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Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.
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Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer,And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right...The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
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The majority is always sane.
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…a fetid cabaret with a beer-bar, two houses of ill-fame disguised as coffee-shops…
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It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story 'The Great Orley Farm Case.' But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore, - Orley Farm.
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'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'
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Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?
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The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
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I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
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I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.
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Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.
Charles B. Rangel
