"It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate."

-- Sheila Jackson Lee

#Amendments Quotes #Agree Quotes #Balanced Quotes

“I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.”

Source : Interview with David Brusie, music.avclub.com. April 26, 2007.
“Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the pastâ€”the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.”
“Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?”
“The actor is an athlete of the heart.”

Source : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.260, Univ of California Press
“People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.”
“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”
“Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.”
“Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth century; a theology which regarded Christianity as an admirable auxiliary to the police force, and a principle of decorum and of cohesion in society, but which carefully banished from it all enthusiasm, veiled or attenuated all its mysteries, and virtually reduced it to an authoritative system of moral philosophy.”

You may also like:

Al Green
Singer
Barbara Lee
U.S. Representative
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
U.S. Representative
Eddie Bernice Johnson
United States Representative
Hank Johnson
U.S. Representative
John Conyers
U.S. Representative
Louie Gohmert
U.S. Representative
Maxine Waters
U.S. Representative
Zoe Lofgren
U.S. Representative