"During the summer of 2009, the debate on……" — Chellie Pingree
"During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence."
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24 Quotes by Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree has 24 quotes on this site.
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A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change…
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I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.
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Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.
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There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some…
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One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
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I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send…
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Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. When she was brutally shot,…
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For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies…
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There is an incredible renewable energy resource off both coasts of this country - wind and tidal energy that can…
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Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
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Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or…
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Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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