After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
July does not a November election make.
If you can’t fill the till, then don’t pass the bill.
You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I’ve always maintained that people don’t realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun – after baseball it’s our next favorite national pastime.
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn’t matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
People don’t know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it’s OK to have all the sadness.
I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know – what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
I’m not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that’s wrong.
I’m against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don’t pay income tax.
I have an awfully good life.
Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.
The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you’re not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I’m not perfect. I’m just like you. They don’t ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.