Gabrielle Giffords famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Majority #Path #Weak
I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Fighting #World #Stills
Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list,
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Powerful #Names #Numbers
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Children #Ignorance #Men
Be bold, be courageous, be your best.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Graduation #Courageous #Be Courageous
Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Party #Office #Tea
Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Country #Strong #Mean
My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#People #Decision #Sound
I will get stronger. I will return.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Stronger #Return
Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Grateful #Hard Work #Long
But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Integrity #Expression #Ideas
Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith,
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Hope And Faith #Having Hope
We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Gun #Sight #People
Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Yards #Trials #Inches
The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Beautiful #Political #Looks
It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.
-- Gabrielle Giffords

#Strong #Memorable #Sacrifice

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