"I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that."

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Source : "Freshman 'embarrassed' by rookies" by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.

Mick Mulvaney

#Would Be Quotes #Debt Quotes #Ceilings Quotes

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”
“I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.”
“Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.”
“A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”

Source : Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.31, Penguin
“What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.”

Source : "The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World". Book by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger (p. 57), 1999.
“Youâ€™ll be all right. Youâ€™re strong. I know youâ€™ll be okay because I like you and you canâ€™t like someone who doesnâ€™t like themself. The people I fear for are the ones who I donâ€™t like because they hate themselves so much they wonâ€™t let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. Iâ€™ll miss you. And I know youâ€™ll be okay.”
“Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has needed a tactical enemy that it can go out and fight in the field in a shooting war. Since 1945, these enemies have been created and appeared as North Korea, North Vietnam, Grenada, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq and now Colombia. On another level, however, the US needs a strategic enemy that will justify outrageous expenditures of capital for strategic weapon systems like ICBMs, Trident submarines and "Star Wars" missile defence systems.”
“The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.”

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