"From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act."

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Source : "Kathleen Sebelius DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

Kathleen Sebelius

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“Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.”
“I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.”

Source : 'Pathology of Colours' (1968)
“I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a claim to be thought a good fencer.To my vision his merits have still seemed to dwindle,Since I have found him allied with the great Dr T[yndall]While I have, for my part, grown cockier and cockier,Since I found an ally in yourself, Mr L[ockyer]And am always, in consequence, thoroughly willin',To perform in the pages of Nature's M[acmillan].”
“There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives.”
“And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.”
“If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.”

Source : Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.45, Paladin Press

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