"It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster."

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Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2010.

Tom Udall

#Ideas Quotes #Dimensions Quotes #Exhausted Quotes

“Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.”
“It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.”
“Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.”
“Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyoneâ€™s interest, but is everyoneâ€™s responsibility to achieve.”
“I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.”
“Women do come up to me after a show, but it's usually to say, 'Yhank you for making us laugh,' and all that.”
“Men seem to think that Page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.”
“The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.”

Source : "Back from the Wilderness ... Miss Cora Munro". Mohican Press Interview, 2005.

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