Too often in the past, members of Congress have won re-election with a two-part strategy: Talk like Scrooge on the campaign trail. Vote like Santa Claus on the Senate floor.
Edmund S. Muskie
Related Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe... HARUKI MURAKAMI To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE They would have booed Santa Claus in there if he had the hide to advocate a No vote. HENRY MORRIS [O]n the day after that happened, the beneficiary was George W. Bush. The Senate, the Congress unite... LOUIS FARRAKHAN What we want to achieve is to send a very strong message to the Senate, to the Congress in general a... JAIME CONTRERAS They would often pull on his beard and say he must be the real Santa Claus, VAN ORDEN ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen... RAYMOND E. FEIST I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW Just like Santa Claus, a farmer works all year on a commodity, and at the end of the year he gives i... RONALD DAWSON Many retailers ended up looking more like Scrooge than Santa. JODIE BERNSTEIN (Bush) can get all the money he wants out of Congress 'cause of this disaster, the people will be so... DICK MORRIS There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is... BOB PHILLIPS There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall. HENRY HYDE History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of ... ALVARO ENRIGUE Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. ZENA WYNN You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's somethin... DAVID LYNCH Express mail is always available, and we deliver on Christmas Day. The carriers dress up like Santa ... BRENDA RYANS One of the problems we have in this country is that too many adults believe in Santa Claus, and too ... LEE LAUER Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates. JON STEWART Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. ROBERT BRAULT This is a pretty strong message to Congress and the Senate before they vote on a marriage protection... KELLY SHACKELFORD Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving? "Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro... TRACY WARD It had been like discovering that Santa Claus was secretly a Nazi. BRANDON SANDERSON We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we ... KAREN ARMSTRONG We have won this election. We have won both the presidential and parliamentary vote. OFWONO OPONDO I like to play Santa Claus for people; I like to cheer people up. DELBERT TEILLE I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the... C.S. LEWIS (I support efforts) to limit the terms of the members of Congress, especially members of the House a... DAN QUAYLE Santa came early this year for polluting industries. Congress should play Scrooge and cut these dirt... GAWAIN KRIPKE DENIAL OF EMOTIONS Our culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fin... JOHN BRADSHAW Oh it's been like Christmastime. Like Christmastime. Everybody sees a Santa Claus, but they're reall... LES WILLIAMS What we've seen in the past is an irresistible temptation on the part of some members of Congress to... JOHN MCCAIN If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll g... BOB DOLE We don't believe the Senate can sustain a filibuster, ... Any Democrat that wants to vote against th... DICK ARMEY We are all very pleased with the unanimous vote by the Senate. RICHARD GETTY I'm really results-oriented. To get results in the Senate, the best way is to reach out to members, ... MIKE DEWINE [Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, who faces a tough re-election bid, said he is pleased to see the Senate e... MIKE DEWINE Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New ... LAURA BUSH As many members of the Senate as there are, there's that many different views of how you do offsets,... JUDD GREGG When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies EVERETT DIRKSEN took to the Senate floor to denounce the president's conduct as immoral and harmful because 'it send... MONICA LEWINSKY In the bill that was introduced in the Senate, in the bill that I introduced along with some members... PAT ROBERTS When the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee says that, you know you're going to get it. JOE LIEBERMAN Grassley is a very good chairman, very fair, and he tries his very best to be bipartisan, ... But th... JAY ROCKEFELLER He's got one of the best legal minds in the Senate, SLADE GORTON There are very few times you can go to the Senate floor and save lives, ... We have it within our po... MIKE DEWINE When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and sa... GERALDINE FERRARO When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was r... TOM HANKS Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy. RICHARD ROEPER It is obvious that members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle really are troubled by the way t... BARRY FRIEDMAN The (Bush) campaign would prefer not to have a floor fight on anything. Because the more we talk abo... CHARLIE BLACK It's sort of like Santa Claus left a present under the tree for everybody and leaves it open to liti... HEIDI MCINTOSH We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run... MAX BURNS You had leaders in Congress -- Bob Packwood, a Republican chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and... JOSEPH THORNDIKE Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Gre... CRAIG CLAIBORNE But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as norma... MALALA YOUSAFZAI We're like their Santa Claus. It's kind of special and we make them feel normal. ENRIQUE GARCIA I've certainly honored the two promises I made: Always tell you the truth; never vote with my re... RON JOHNSON They have been with me on the campaign trail and heard my message more than any other voters in the ... ARNOLD FIELKOW To do his part to ensure the fairness, accuracy and finality of this election Governor Bush has deci... DON EVANS There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee... JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the... JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. JACK KEROUAC So, you're the Santa Claus of the magic world with a naughty and nice list? ZOE FORWARD Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like gr... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I'm more of a seafood guy. If they had a Lobster Bowl I might be looking like Santa Claus. JONATHAN SCOTT Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretche... EMMA LAZARUS Instead of a State of the Union address, the president kicked off his re-election campaign. His spee... RAHM EMANUEL I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-elec... ED ROLLINS All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC We want the communities to understand their part of the trail and be active members of the trail. AMY TRIMBLE Now, members of Congress will vote on a final conference report knowing that the FBI has in fact bee... BOB BARR I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... They should have told him that [the fence he fell through on a campaign stop] was not a metaphor. He... BOB DOLE ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a... JACK KEROUAC This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback) "I know t... AMAZON REVIEWER On Christmas. "Santa Claus represents God on assistance," said Clyde. "Santa Claus... MILTON ROKEACH The Bush campaign was all about national security. [Campaign members] implied ... that a vote for Ke... BILL PLANTE Decades before President Richard Nixon bet his re-election on winning the Dixiecrat vote, Wilson wor... GREG GRANDIN Our members, like Congress and the American people, are rightly preoccupied with doing their part to... DERRICK MAX on the campaign trail, but that's what it's about. MONTEL WILLIAMS It's been great having my sister on the floor with me these past two years. AMANDA GONSALVES I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective, ALAN GREENSPAN mount a national crusade against the senate elections. MORGAN TSVANGIRAI Democrats are in open disarray in the Senate. This is not the type of fight you win by coming late t... JONATHAN TURLEY One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body i... BILL NELSON I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other ... PHIL GRAMM I am proud that the Senate has come together to address the urgent need for comprehensive immigratio... EDWARD KENNEDY To me, the central issues before the Senate is whether or not the Senate will allow President Bush t... LINDSEY GRAHAM If you look at Reagan who had two [failed Supreme Court] nominees, who lost control of the Senate an... KEN MEHLMAN The Senate and the House are at loggerheads, and it would be virtually impossible for the leaders of... LARRY SABATO
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EDMUND HILLARY The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life. EDMUND HILLARY My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be ta... EDMUND HILLARY No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. EDMUND HILLARY Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. EDMUND HILLARY Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. EDMUND HILLARY I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was. EDMUND HILLARY It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. EDMUND HILLARY There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all fea... EDMUND HILLARY If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this moun... EDMUND HILLARY I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian. EDMUND BARTON The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference ... EDMUND BARTON Creating a nation requires the will of the people! EDMUND BARTON If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of ed... EDMUND BARTON It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education. EDMUND BARTON She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. EDMUND BURKE My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. EDMUND BURKE The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; ... EDMUND BURKE By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassin... EDMUND MORGAN The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system,
are wisely careful never to set up a... EDMUND BURKE But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resist... EDMUND BURKE What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart. EDMUND BURKE The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses... EDMUND WALLER The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more! EDMUND WALLER The balance of power. EDMUND BURKE Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. EDMUND BURKE You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the re... EDMUND BURKE I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an
whole people. EDMUND BURKE There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c... EDMUND BURKE The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp... EDMUND BURKE Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their c... EDMUND PHELPS I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point... EDMUND WHITE If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. EDMUND BURKE Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a... EDMUND BURKE Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting... EDMUND MORRISON It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor. EDMUND SPENSER Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercie ever hope to have? EDMUND SPENSER Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. EDMUND SPENSER It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished. EDMUND SPENSER Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything. EDMUND SPENSER Anger manages everything badly. EDMUND SPENSER There is no disputing about taste.
[Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.] EDMUND SPENSER Although the last, not least. EDMUND SPENSER In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city withou... EDMUND WHITE It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary
ideas of criminal justice to this gr... EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, un... EDMUND BURKE Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes... EDMUND BURKE And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first
scarcity they will turn and bite the h... EDMUND BURKE All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every
virtue and every prudent act--is f... EDMUND BURKE You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so. EDMUND MUSKE Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. EDMUND SPENSER Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,
Each note of which calls like a little sister,
Those... EDMUND ROSTAND Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude. EDMUND BURKE No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of
Christian charity. EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. EDMUND BURKE Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover. EDMUND BURKE