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We're here today to demand accountability and an end to government shutdowns. We're here to tell legislators that our public services are not for sale.


Eliot Seide

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IMMANUEL KANT Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater effi...
JOHN HUTTON I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
IMRAN KHAN Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
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JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered he...
ALEKSANDER KAASNIEWSKI We were already, in effect, under funded because the demand for services exceeded our capacity.
BOB PLAISSANCE We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered he...
ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI The legislators who died in the crash were unanimous in the meeting on the need to bring the clashes...
JOHN KOECH Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA In this age of Enron and a focus on increased accountability demanded by the public, particularly as...
DENNIS GALLAGHER We want to try to bring services to our community that would not otherwise be here.
JEDD GOULD People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE I am here before you today to tell you that this claim is not true.
DAVID HUBER Our task was to come here and qualify for the quarter-finals. We did not do that so we were unsucces...
GEORGY YARTSEV To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS Our position is that Ms. Wade has not met her burden to show that there were improper ballots that w...
LARRY MOORE We are gathered here today to show our dislike for the legislation that is being passed in the Unite...
ARTHUR ALVAREZ The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the ...
JACOB RUPPERT Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE We were an experiment to see if a unit of government could perform in a self-supporting way - an att...
DAVE STROHMAIER I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes
LULLABY TO AN ANXIOUS CHILD Everybody we've seen here today has an aversion to authority figures. They're afraid of their govern...
DAVID RYAN The road to dishonor can end here today.
ABBE LOWELL Traveling out here was uncalled for. Try not to patronize us next time by having us travel out here ...
AARON BROOKS All of our services are going to be going on -- 8:15, 9:30 and two services at 11 a.m.. Well, we're ...
JOE CONNELLY These expressions of interest are an important first step in the continued development of expanded e...
GREG RIZZO I've had an amazing reception here today, everywhere. I went and took a couple of runs at Sugarloaf ...
SETH WESCOTT During the quarter, we experienced particularly strong demand for our workgroup servers, high-end se...
MICHAEL LEHMAN Our government in Mexico needs to know we are here.
SOSTENES ABALOS With consumer demand for wireless services soaring, we are encouraged to see NTIA do its part for co...
THOMAS SUGRUE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE The demand by our institutions was substantial, but we are pleased to work with the American Airline...
TIM ALLEN It was a hard sale getting them here. I was instructed to get the program back in compliance and not...
EDMOND DONALD There were a lot of very good teams and athletes here today. We had a good day to finish were we did...
BRAD BEVIS We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON The triggering points are very narrow and restrictive. We're not here to run county government, othe...
GREG STAMM Our love is for the pioneers. It's a humbling experience to know that they were here. It helps us to...
CAROL BARNES We weren't sure that we were even going to be here. To now be here and have a medal around our neck,...
BEN AGOSTO We are so very grateful our kids are here today, and we look forward to seeing our grandson, ... He'...
JULIE SNYDER We were quick here today and are looking strong and consistent, so it is a positive start to the wee...
JUAN PABLO MONTOYA New judge, new justice minister. The new government says there is going to be accountability so here...
ROBERT LATIMER There was a need here we were not meeting. There were flights we were missing because we were not he...
DEB MILLINER Flowers were put on earth for our enjoyment. We were put here for God's. Essentially we are the Flow...
WILLIAM PAISLEY You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE There are established legal procedures for obtaining phone records that provide checks against impro...
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I...
GRAHAM GREENE Quite a few of our kids joined the club after they found out what other services were here. We like ...
HELEN HOULIHAN The high standards we have for our school and town services are the reasons why people want to live ...
MAUREEN MCCLAY Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I think [Bush] probably broke the law here, but we need to know why they did it this way and what th...
RUSS FEINGOLD The sale was a first for us and we were very happy with the end result,
HEATHER REID For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our priv...
BUTCH OTTER If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM I've sacrificed an awful lot and put up with a lot to be here. Somewhere there's a not very long lis...
KIRK SHELMERDINE Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI The fact that a lot of legislators live here makes it comforting to me,
JEAN SCHMIDT The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI Everybody that builds a new development these days builds a new golf course. Today, the country club...
GUS COOPER Everybody that builds a new development these days builds a new golf course, ... Today, the country ...
GUS COOPER We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; w...
RICK WARREN It was big, very big. I think a lot of people came in here today thinking we were just going to beat...
MATT ERICKSON And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian governmen...
UMBERTO GUIDONI Our kids showed great effort and hustle and were rewarded with another game. That's the best reward ...
DAVE STEPHENS Ninety five percent of everybody who came through here today had their drivers license, their insura...
GEORGE PAYNE This was a calculated, evil act by people who were seeking to maim and kill. We are extremely fortun...
ALAN FRY There were some real concerns for the donation of land for future public services.
GARY KUBIC My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
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CATHY MITCHELL Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn...
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CLEMA LEWIS What I'm proposing is that the money raised here should stay here to provide better services and sup...
DANIEL JARA I'm here to provide the leadership and direction and to develop the talents of the people who are he...
DAN STENCIL I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican coll...
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ROBERT ALMINANA When prices were higher here than elsewhere, we were told that California's market is an island, ......
TOM DRESSLAR I did not want to make a conclusion today and tell those who were absent to accept it.
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GEORGE ELIOT Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
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GEORGE ELIOT Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
GEORGE ELIOT My mind may be American but my heart is British.
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GEORGE ELIOT I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
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GEORGE ELIOT For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice...
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GEORGE ELIOT Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
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GEORGE ELIOT Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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GEORGE ELIOT Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
GEORGE ELIOT It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
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GEORGE ELIOT Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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GEORGE ELIOT One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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GEORGE ELIOT I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
GEORGE ELIOT Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
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GEORGE ELIOT No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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GEORGE ELIOT The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
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GEORGE ELIOT More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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GEORGE ELIOT The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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GEORGE ELIOT One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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GEORGE ELIOT Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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GEORGE ELIOT The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoi...
GEORGE ELIOT The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
GEORGE ELIOT Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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GEORGE ELIOT The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so i...
GEORGE ELIOT Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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GEORGE ELIOT To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue...
GEORGE ELIOT But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
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EDEN ELIOT Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruit...
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GEORGE ELIOT In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
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GEORGE ELIOT Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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GEORGE ELIOT Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
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GEORGE ELIOT Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires ...
GEORGE ELIOT We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same in...
GEORGE ELIOT What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOT The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
GEORGE ELIOT In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
GEORGE ELIOT Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
GEORGE ELIOT My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measu...
GEORGE ELIOT Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputat...
GEORGE ELIOT I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.
ELIOT SPITZER I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them...
GEORGE ELIOT The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is...
GEORGE ELIOT