"I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we're so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message."

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Source : "Heinrich Does Not Shy From Voting Record". Interview with Erin McPike, Scott Conroy, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 14, 2010.

Martin Heinrich

#Party Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hard Times Quotes

“I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.”
“But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.”
“I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and being brave? No difference. Only what you do. They both feel the same. They both fear dying and getting hurt. The man who is yellow refuses to face up to what he's got to face. The hero is more disciplined and he fights those feelings off and he does what he has to do. But they both feel the same, the hero and the coward. People who watch you judge you on what you do, not how you fee.”
“My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.”

Source : Smedley Butler's reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize WWI veterans (for military support) in a fascist-coup of FDR, as related by Butler in testimony before Congress, 1934.
“If you're not ready to fall, you're not ready to hurdle.”
“Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.”

Source : Congressional Record, V. 150, PT. 8, May 18, 2004 to June 1, 2004, Government Printing Office, p. 10718, 2009.
“I would argue that we are in the middle of the biggest cable-news bull market that we have seen in some time. Clearly outside of any war that has taken an ongoing story that has taken several weeks at a time. It's anyone's guess as to when it ends, if it ever does. And I think all of that is remarkable. No one predicted it.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.”

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