"And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene."

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Source : "CNN Live Today" with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

John Breaux

#Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes #Play Quotes

“No one thinks in your mind except you.”
“You better change your ways / And get really wild. / I want to tell you something / I wouldn't tell you no lie. / Wild women are the only kind / That really get by, / 'Cause Wild Women don't worry / Wild Women don't get the blues.”
“I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.”
“Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.”

Source : "The Miscellaneous Works".
“The Laughing Heart your life is your life donâ€™t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you canâ€™t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you.”
“Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word My choicest hours Are the hours I spend with You - O God, I can't live in this world Without remembering You”
“A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.”
“You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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