Tom McClintock famous quotes
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I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
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I know theres a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. Theres a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.
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Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.
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If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.
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The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.
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A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.
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...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.
-- Tom McClintock
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I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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Don't be a prisoner of your own style!
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I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.
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The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.
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Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.
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Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
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