"I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences."

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Source : Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

Ted Cruz

#Thinking Quotes #Leader Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.”
“People always like to hear that they're under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they'd feel if they were told they weren't under stress.”

Source : "Jaws". "Forty Stories". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1987.
“I've kicked at Notre Dame the past four years, I've been in frigid cold weather, snow. I've kicked at Yankee Stadium in December, so whatever is thrown at me I'm able to do.”
“I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.”
“The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.”
“No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level of life and every aspiration. It makes our character less vigorous. The gospel is not simply a philosophy of religion or law of life, but it is an apocalypse, showing the heavens to our thought, and so bringing its spiritual benedictions to every heart and life.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 347), 1895.
“What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus placed in your hands all the treasures of His grace and mercy? You sit crowned Queen at the right hand of your son: your dominion reaches as far as the heavens and to you are subject the earth and all creatures dwelling thereon. Your dominion reaches even down into the abyss of hell, and you alone, oh Mary, save us from the hands of Satan.”
“I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.”

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