Special Interests Quotes - Page 8

• Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.

  Curtis Jackson

  Peace, Special, Together

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• When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

  Garth Brooks

  Peace, Ocean, Sky

  Song: We Shall Be Free, Album: The Chase, 1992

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• We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

  Joni Mitchell

  Peace, Hippie, Garden

  "Woodstock" (song) (1969)

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• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Special, Literature, Students

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.229, tredition

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• We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

  Barack Obama

  Class, Mind, Special

  "Obama Tells Republicans to 'Sit in Back'". Speech, www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2010.

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• Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Believe, Top Down

  The House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Support, Special, Vote

  Nancy Pelosi's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Growth

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• One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Men, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• I think that the best approach would be if the American people ever insist that we cut down on the massive amounts of money that moves into the campaigns from special interest groups, and if we resist publicly by saying "No more negative advertisements that destroy the reputations of one's opponents." In the meantime, just don't pay any attention to negative ads, if you can avoid them, and try to focus on the issues.

  Jimmy Carter

  Moving, Cutting, Thinking

  "President Jimmy Carter ‘NIV Lessons from Life Bible’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so as to give their candidate an edge and allow the power of massive money to be felt. But reform laws will become irrelevant and redundant as the Internet replaces the special-interest fat cats as the best way to raise money and takes the place of TV as the most effective way to get votes.

  Dick Morris

  Cat, Law, Giving

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• It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

  Al Yankovic

  Peace, Military, War

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• In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.

  Frank Zappa

  Dream, Peace, Special

  Song: Son Of Orange County

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• In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

  Don Henley

  Peace, Numbers, Special

  Song: Them and Us, Album: I Can't Stand Still

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• If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

  Bob Dylan

  Peace, Special, Rubies

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

  Amy Grant

  Peace, Men, Hands

  Song: Helping Hand, Album: House of Love, 1994

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• I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

  Ray Davies

  Peace, Swim, Special

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• Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change.

  Tupac Shakur

  Peace, Pain, Special

  Song: Smile

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• I might be an endangered species.

  Waylon Jennings

  Peace, Special, Might

  Song: Endangered Species

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• I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

  Ray Davies

  Peace, War, Special

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• I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

  Kid Rock

  Peace, Cancer, Rocks

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• I brake for brunettes.

  Rhett Akins

  Peace, Special, Brunette

  Song: I Brake For Brunettes

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• He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.

  Jerry Jeff Walker

  Mother, Peace, Special

  Song: Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother

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• He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Peace, Paris, Special

  Song: He Went To Paris, 1973

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• Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Peace, Shining, Special

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