Members Quotes - Page 8

• I think all members of Congress are very concerned about the fact that, while we want to see our law enforcement agencies have every means they can possibly have to combat terrorism, we've got to remember that we've had a Constitution in place for 225 years, and it has served us well.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Mean, Thinking, Agency

  "Rep. Saxby Chambliss: Anti-terrorism measures in the U.S". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.

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• It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

  Stanley Clarke

  Band, Pages, Sometimes

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• The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

  Vince Cable

  Running, Choices, House

  "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

  James Badge Dale

  Book, Character, Perfect

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• How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Mad, Doe, Who We Are

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• In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great.

  Tim DeKay

  Art, Hollywood, Lots Of Friends

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• My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

  Alexander Downer

  Father, Names, House

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

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• The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The Price Is Right' are familiar.

  Doug Davidson

  Night, Years, Guy

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• My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

  Frank Dobson

  Lying, Party, Views

  "The unofficial opposition: furry, fearless and perfectly Frank" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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• The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

  Jacques Delors

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

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• When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

  Tom Daschle

  Majority, Degrees, Minorities

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• From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

  Joseph Fiennes

  School, People, Age

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

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• As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

  Andrew Gross

  Book, Hero, Writing

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• I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

  Howard Gordon

  Council, Policy, International

  "Q&A with Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. October 18, 2011.

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• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  Bart Gordon

  Office, Tennessee, Facts

  "Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon (D) To Retire". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 14, 2009.

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• I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

  Cindy Gallop

  Our Society, Invisible, Older Women

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• I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

  David Gilmour

  Want

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• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  Harold H. Greene

  Real, Data, People

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• Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.

  Michael Andretti

  Running, Team, Race

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• Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

  Peter Agre

  Dad, College, Oxford

  "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

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• I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club.

  Dierks Bentley

  Fans, Clubs, George Jones

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• This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

  Emilio Estevez

  Buttons, Benefits, Want

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• It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Country, Europe, Effort

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• The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

  Sibel Edmonds

  People, Pushing, Has Beens

  "Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate". Interview with by Jim Hogue, baltimorechronicle.com. May 07, 2004.

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• You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

  Harry S. Truman

  Hands, World, Architect

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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