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- Nov 07, 2020
Said Quotes
Words spoken, decisions made.
This collection centers on moments of speaking up — reciting the rosary as part of a faith practice, warning lawmakers about foreign policy risk before Congress, and casting a vote that came with real consequences at the United Nations. For more on personal conviction, see our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?' more often.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaker Boehner has said many times that the House of Representatives is the closest institution to the people, and he recognizes that by empowering the members to have direct input into the process.
- She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said all along: I'll support the nominee, because we can't afford another term of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy or, for that matter, economic policy at home.
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- Nov 07, 2020