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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.


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ALICE WALKER As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produc...
ALICE WALKER Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
ALICE WALKER In search of my mother's garden I found my own.
ALICE WALKER All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never de...
ALICE WALKER I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is th...
WALKER PERCY It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black wo...
ALICE WALKER It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addis...
ADDISON WALKER Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh pea...
THOMAS WALKER The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than...
ALICE WALKER People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to re...
ALICE WALKER The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout
ALICE WALKER I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be sav...
ALICE WALKER Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
MARGARET WALKER Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and ...
STANLEY WALKER The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose ...
ALICE WALKER How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
ALICE WALKER I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age ...
PAUL WALKER As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and p...
ALICE WALKER