"We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!"

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Richard Trumka

#Running Quotes #Independent Quotes #Leader Quotes

“Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.”

Source : "The Good and Bad of the Vatican’s New LGBT Statement" by Christian Piatt, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2014.
“World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.”
“In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.”
“Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.”
“Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate Mrs. Beale's chickens?Smoke whined apologetically.Saetan leaned back in his chair. Oh, it was so satisfying to see her thrown off stride. I'm sure Mrs. Beale was delighted to feed a guest - even if she wasn't aware of it, he added dryly, remembering too well his cook's reaction when she learned about the missing hens.”
“Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.”
“Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.”

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