"We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States."

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Source : "State of the Union" with John King, www.cnn.com. March 29, 2009.

Kent Conrad

#United States Quotes #Reform Quotes #Swamps Quotes

“Reality is always kinder than your thinking.”
“The violet sea longs for the birth of gods, for to be born here is an unspeakable feast, a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.”

Source : José Lezama Lima (2005). “José Lezama Lima: Selections”, p.9, Univ of California Press
“My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will.”
“As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves.”
“I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.”
“The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.”
“China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.”

Source : Source: www.china.org.cn
“I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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