"It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices."

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Source : "Democrats and Republicans Walk Fine Line in Senate Races" by Elizabeth Hartfield, abcnews.go.com. May 19, 2012.

Linda Lingle

#Pain Quotes #Party Quotes #Choices Quotes

“I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.”

Source : The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997.
“When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.”
“I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the drafts were really about getting the language right, getting the pitch right, keeping the voice austere and plainspoken.”
“People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.”
“I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an historic monument, but it does not deserve all the respect given it when it is said it is perfect, original and coherent expression of a past that we must revere. Orsay is basically a box.”
“I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.”
“I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.”
“You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.”

Source : Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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