"Congress seems drugged and inert most of the……" — Shirley Chisholm
"Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission."
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Shirley Chisholm
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38 Quotes by Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm has 38 quotes on this site.
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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
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There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who…
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The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights…
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I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They…
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My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a…
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh…
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More Appoint Quotes
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one of 40 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint…
— Michele Bachmann
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When…
— Abraham Lincoln
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What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
— Roman Jakobson
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Because the union of a man and woman deserves an honored place in our society, I support the protection of…
— George W. Bush
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But I am pro-life and will intend, if I’m president of the United States, to encourage pro-life policies. [...] And…
— Mitt Romney
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The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate,…
— John Jay Hooker
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It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact,…
— Darrell Issa
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Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
— Louis XIV
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The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that…
— Paul Krugman
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In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but…
— Edmund Burke
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How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator…
— John Bevere
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