John Chafee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!
-- John Chafee

#Gun #Law #Goes On
Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.
-- John Chafee

#Motto #Should #Caution
I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage. ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.
-- John Chafee

#Thinking #Oil #Sitting
You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.
-- John Chafee

#House #Needs #Done

I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Labor is the law of happiness.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

John Chafee famous quotes

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