"I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America."

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Source : Interview with Ezra Klein, www.goodreads.com. February 10, 2011.

Peter Shumlin

#America Quotes #Trying Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.”
“Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.”
“I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?”
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
“I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.”

Source : "How Can We Make The World More Compassionate?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 19, 2014.
“We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.”
“One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.”

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