Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.Charles B. Rangel
Quotes to Explore
-
I think my numbers speak for themselves.
-
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
-
Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
-
Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
-
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
-
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
-
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
-
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
-
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
-
I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
-
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
-
In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
-
What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
-
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
-
I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
-
There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
-
I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
-
I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
-
Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.
-
I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.
-
If I have to made a Daredevil movie, I will take a completely different direction. My vision of the character is much more a drama. There will be a 1st part in the child hood of Matt Murdock and the universe of Hell kitchen. Something in the universe of the first Rocky Balboa.
-
This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
-
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
-
I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.
Charles B. Rangel
