Jim Ryun quote: "Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism."

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not...
JIM RYUN

Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in ou...
JIM RYUN

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
JIM RYUN

Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternativ...
JIM RYUN

While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the ...
JIM RYUN

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large...
JIM RYUN

By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds...
JIM RYUN

Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on...
JIM RYUN

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution ...
JIM RYUN

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54...
JIM RYUN

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our ...
JIM RYUN

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.
JIM RYUN

By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol,...
JIM RYUN

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same tim...
JIM RYUN

The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising...
JIM RYUN

One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for publi...
JIM RYUN

not so sure that it's detrimental.
JIM RYUN

The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year t...
JIM RYUN

Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and li...
JIM RYUN

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the takin...
JIM RYUN

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISON

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
JIM ROHN

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
JIM MORRISON

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of be...
JIM DAVIS

I stop short of being a workaholic.
JIM DAVIS

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.
JIM DAVIS

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
JIM DAVIS

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.
JIM DAVIS

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make rea...
JIM DAVIS

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
JIM DAVIS

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
JIM DAVIS

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
JIM DAVIS

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condi...
JIM DAVIS

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting...
JIM DAVIS

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
JIM DAVIS

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
JIM DAVIS

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
JIM DAVIS

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessari...
JIM DAVIS

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute hum...
JIM DAVIS

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veteran...
JIM DAVIS

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
JIM DAVIS

Cats rule the world.
JIM DAVIS

As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a ma...
JIM RAMSTAD

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, th...
JIM JARMUSCH

Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
JIM ROHN

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
JIM MORRISON

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op...
JIM MORRISON

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t...
JIM CARREY

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Se...
JIM CARREY

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserv...
JIM CARREY

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like...
JIM CARREY

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
JIM CARREY

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good rel...
JIM CARREY

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
JIM CARREY

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without despera...
JIM CARREY

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain...
JIM CARREY

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingred...
JIM CARREY

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day w...
JIM CARREY

If you've got a talent, protect it.
JIM CARREY

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
JIM CARREY

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create ...
JIM CARREY

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's lef...
JIM CARREY

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articl...
JIM HENSON

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in t...
JIM HENSON

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I ...
JIM HENSON

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most ...
JIM HENSON

I think my own strengths are in television production.
JIM HENSON

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gor...
JIM HENSON

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale o...
JIM HENSON

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working t...
JIM HENSON

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantag...
JIM HENSON

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
JIM HENSON

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several o...
JIM HENSON

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like t...
JIM HENSON

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that s...
JIM HENSON

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that peop...
JIM HENSON

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all ...
JIM HENSON

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in...
JIM HENSON

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them...
JIM HENSON

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
JIM HENSON

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - to...
JIM HENSON

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
JIM HENSON

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...
JIM HENSON

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
JIM HENSON

Either you run the day or the day runs you.
JIM ROHN

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
JIM ROHN

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
JIM ROHN

There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a clien...
JIM GARRISON

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I coul...
JIM GARRISON

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employ...
JIM GARRISON

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute s...
JIM GARRISON

I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
JIM GARRISON

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators tr...
JIM GARRISON

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of indivi...
JIM GARRISON

It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
JIM GARRISON

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my fait...
JIM GARRISON

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaig...
JIM GARRISON

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assass...
JIM GARRISON

I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
JIM GARRISON

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of nationa...
JIM GARRISON

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
JIM MCGOVERN

I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ...
JIM MCGOVERN

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr...
JIM MCGOVERN

A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ...
JIM MCGOVERN

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch...
JIM MCGOVERN

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
JIM CARREY

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
JIM BROWN

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l...
JIM GAFFIGAN

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, &#...
JIM CARREY

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their...
JIM MORRISON

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
JIM ROHN

I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami...
JIM DRAIN

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of p...
JIM RAMSTAD

I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early ...
JIM HIMES

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, ...
JIM ROHN

Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all t...
JIM CRACE

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it...
JIM MORRISON

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the princip...
JIM GERLACH

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.
JIM HARRISON

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in o...
JIM WEBB

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America...
JIM BROWN

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
JIM COOPER

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At le...
JIM ROHN

I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to d...
JIM BROWN

I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ...
JIM BROWN

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.
JIM LOEHR

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror ar...
JIM FERGUS

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A...
JIM THOMPSON

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast o...
JIM STURGESS

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on ...
JIM DOYLE

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and r...
JIM BROADBENT

During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.
JIM PATTISON

The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d...
JIM LEE

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we...
JIM COSTA

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
JIM ROGERS

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual med...
JIM GERLACH

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around th...
JIM CARREY

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger aroun...
JIM BUTCHER

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level ...
JIM HIGHTOWER

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitioni...
JIM HIGHTOWER

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police ...
JIM RAMSTAD

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly...
JIM LEHRER

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
JIM CARREY

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy...
JIM LEHRER

Success and money can really be quite blinding.
JIM HARRISON

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
JIM BACKUS

Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.
JIM FOWLER

There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.
JIM ROHN

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have ...
JIM ROHN

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those wh...
JIM ROHN

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not b...
JIM ROHN

In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of...
JIM GERLACH

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in ...
JIM BISHOP

There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney....
JIM BROWN

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.
JIM MORRISON

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and...
JIM BUNNING

An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not<...
JIM BUTCHER

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

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Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

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