"As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy."

-- Chris Van Hollen

#Retirement Quotes #Children Quotes #War Quotes

“Those who follow are always behind.”
“I walked in a desert. And I cried, â€˜Ah, God, take me from this place!â€™ A voice said, â€˜It is no desert.â€™ I cried, â€˜Well, But - The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.â€™ A voice said, â€˜It is no desert.â€™”

Source : Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America
“I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.”
“We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.”

Source : The New Republic, Volume 115, p. 379, 1946.
“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
“Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.”
“It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them.”
“Great masters merit emulation, not worship.”

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