Pete McCloskey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.
-- Pete McCloskey

#College #Students #January
We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.
-- Pete McCloskey

#Independence #Church #Separation
In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
-- Pete McCloskey

#Honesty #Men #Leader
The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.
-- Pete McCloskey

#Party #Hands #Hymns
Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason
-- Pete McCloskey

#Inspirational #Diapers #Needs
My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.
-- Pete McCloskey

#California #Wife #Trying

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
What we tell students in formal schooling: â€œSit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.
Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
September is the other January.
The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

Pete McCloskey famous quotes

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