"Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington."

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Source : "Online Extra: Q&A with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham". Interview with Laura Cohn, www.bloomberg.com. April 9, 2001.

Spencer Abraham

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“I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning acceptance. . . . As a playwright, what I object to right now is any form of fundamentalism, whether it's nationalistic, religious or ethnic. . . . I think it is ridiculous - and fundamentalist, by the way - to say that I am not changed by the culture around me.”
“Children are our most valuable natural resource.”
“Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.”
“I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.”

Source : "Nothing to Lose". Book by Lee Child, March 24, 2008.
“Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.”
“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”
“no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.”
“As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.”

Source : "The lady's not a tramp". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.

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