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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
WALTER ANNENBERG
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Iowans tend to like mavericks. Grassley is pretty much a down-the-line Republican, but with a maveri...
DENNIS GOLDFORD
Every business has to re-think their own business model and say does it meet this DSM test and do th...
CHANDA KOCHHAR
to disagree one doesnt have to be disagreeable
BARRY M. GOLDWATER
We all know there is blood in meat (USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee).
CHARLES GRASSLEY
The exact figure (of the tax cut) I will release tomorrow (Tuesday), ... It won't be exactly the way...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
The FBI, by failing to admit it was mechanical problems until almost one year later, it seems to me ...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
We need to know whether that was an isolated incident or whether similar tragedies have happened or ...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I am very pessimistic about it in the future, ... Probably the next bite at Social Security will com...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
You know there are powerful interests here -- we call them K Street lobbyists -- that are very prone...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I would imagine we have 55 or 56 votes to repeal it, but it's not going to get done,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
If something is wrong, it is like locking the barn door after the horse is stolen, ... But we are st...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after be...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
This legislation extends very important benefits for people who live on the edge of poverty,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific resear...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I'm extremely disappointed that the European Commission has insisted on perpetuating this dispute,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I think it's a matter of accommodating people who see unfair competition,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I can't even get consensus among Republicans.
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Ottumwa Regional Hospital and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regional Office a...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
[In 1993,] I didn't hear people in the Midwest moaning and groaning about whether or not the governm...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
In recent years, the FDA has demonstrated a too-cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry a...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Its remarkable that better management of the Medicare program has achieved the same level of savings...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
If you make a promise, you are responsible for your own promise, ... Unfortunately, there are a few ...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
If Congress does its job, taxpayers won't suffer any tax increase,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
There is a ship afloat without a captain,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
With this first initiative from the Finance Committee - and there will be more in other areas where ...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Personal accounts don't solve that problem,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
They just don't belong in that bill.
CHARLES GRASSLEY
You have a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the high cost of heating fuels,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
You have a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the high cost of heating fuels....
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I think the FBI has shown, going back to January of 1997, its ability to use its power and prestige ...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
You see the sort of inconsistency that I get from my members,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
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CHARLES GRASSLEY
I think I should have kept my mouth shut back in January,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I expect the Judiciary Committee to conduct a fair and dignified hearing in a timely manner, followe...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
By starting today to tackle this challenge of the baby boomers we can avoid a crisis.
CHARLES GRASSLEY
My perception is that we're making considerable progress. But not as much progress as we thought tha...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
The wisest thing to do is disregard revenue that was never supposed to come in anyway,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I have very good evidence not that the process is broken but within the process there was just misch...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
The only thing that's going to be fatal to this nomination is how she performs before the committee....
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Some of their recommendations are bound to be politically unpopular.  Cutting the home-mortgage int...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I have respect for these evangelical leaders, but sometimes they aren't very politically sophisticat...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
And the provision included to offset the cost of these programs recognizes that taxpayers shouldn't ...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
The American taxpayers have spent a lot of money on this report and they deserve the right to see it...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Money is wasted or lost to fraud, and quality of care can be jeopardized when products and services ...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
CHARLES GRASSLEY
There's a blunder a month and more like recently a blunder a week,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Even documented pledges by FBI bureaucrats to write threat assessments were never kept, and no one w...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I think if Democrats would take a good look at it (the overall health spending package), a lot of De...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.
AMIT KALANTRI
All of life is a test and we all have our challenges to meet.
MARJORY SHEBA
If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing.
GENEREUX PHILIP
just because theres a goalie, doesnt mean you cant score
BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON
A certificate in commonsense is better than a doctorate in philosophy.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Gathering eggs is commonsense; waiting for them to hatch is wisdom.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
ADMIRAL FREDERICK
I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
ADMIRAL WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY JR. (BULL)
failure doesnt mean or proves u r looser quiting off proves..
RAKSHAN BHANDARY
If it doesnt help, I damned sure dont know what will.
JACK MOORE
Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind.
SHANNON L. ALDER
it doesnt matter how slow you go, as long as you dont stop
ELIN
Putting a tiger in a lions den doesnt make it any less dangerous
BRANDON BROCK
Your obliviousness is so appearant, that your thought process can't even capture what your weak mind...
BRANDON CRAIG
The nightlife in Baltimore is very mixed. Any gay people I know go to the hipster bars; they don'...
JOHN WATERS
God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch...
NORAH JONES
The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examina...
DANIEL STARCH
It is really going to be those kids who can meet the test and are in a gap situation, like the Lost ...
KRISTIN BREWER
nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
disguise.
only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI
A certificate in commonsense from life is better than a doctorate in philosophy from university.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
We certainly believe we meet the test (for having authority to sell at market rates), and we'll see ...
DAVID HOFFMAN
If this woman doesn't meet the test of insanity in this state, then nobody does. We might as well wi...
GEORGE PARNHAM
Charles Wynn ran the ball really well, but Charles did most of that (himself).
BRADY HOKE
I will always remenber the old days,doesnt matter how brilliant the future is, i will always remenbe...
RAJA
Human was made to born with commonsense on the assumption that he looked after other living beings a...
CHANDRABABU V.S.
The Nondiscriminatory Transportation Screening Act provides a commonsense approach for the TSA to up...
BILL FLORES
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.
ASHISH KUMAR
It doesnt matter how good you are,if you re a champion,good will never be enough!
RAJA
There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY
Thinking of you is my daily routine...thinking of something else is an event that doesnt happen all ...
SEGEV LAYANI
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I h...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
It defies the nation's history and commonsense. With their filthy hands and drunken heads they are c...
GENNADY ZYUGANOV
...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charl...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
It seems to be a fairly commonsense objective in my book. (Florida's) progress is inextricably linke...
DOUG CALLAWAY
It's like sticking a campaign sign in your yard, but you can't do that. Sometimes commonsense rules ...
LARRY WISE
FDA scientists and employees are by and large hardworking and committed to fulfilling the agency's m...
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY
We did not find anything alarming enough that required additional follow-up beyond what law-enforcem...
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY
I hope, sitting in the marble palace, you'll remember that I have great pride in the success of the ...
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY
Negotiators need to keep the focus on the biggest issues that are clogging up the works. At the top ...
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It is difficult to understand why an entire board would need to travel from New Jersey to the Grand ...
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The Red Cross in its disaster response was more than a charity. It was also a federal contractor. It...
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CHARLES E. GRASSLEY
People don't see light at the end of the tunnel in Iraq. If the situation a year from now is the sam...
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Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
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I've seen this office become involved in many questionable projects despite strong and persistent op...
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY
Our committee has a lot of work to do before we truly think about implementing a guest worker progra...
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY

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There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES
I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa...
LARRY CHARLES
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS
When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
CHARLES DICKENS
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee...
CHARLES PLATT
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van...
CHARLES LINDBERGH
I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a...
CHARLES COMISKEY
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust...
CHARLES BUXTON
The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY