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My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.
Christine Quinn
School
Mother
Old
Back
Punch
Neighborhood
Would
Classmates
Hawaiian
Had
Bakery
Parties
She
Go
Lot
Huge
Get
Organize
Cookies
Special
Fun
Prepare
Elementary
Elementary School
Served
Her
Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.
Christine Quinn
Time
Tired
You
Too Much
Will
Become
Own
Too
Eat
Schedule
Because
Stop
Much
Your
Productive
Keep
Keeping
Wasting
Wasting Time
We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people's business than their own.
Christine Todd Whitman
Business
People
Own
Congress
Cares
About
More
Doing
Than
Need
The world changed on September 11, 2001.
Christopher Dodd
World
September
Changed
No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.
Chuck Hagel
Me
Vote
Statement
Defines
Record
Individual
No-One
Quote
Beliefs
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Chuck Schumer
Mistake
Perhaps
Greatest
Inaction
Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.
Chuck Schumer
Me
Class
People
Care
Say
Those
Chattering
Yes
Amendment
dont Care
American
Tiny
Little
American People
Much
Really
When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.
Chuck Schumer
Met
Says
Favorite
Haven
Never
He
Budget
New
Like
Know
Islands
Mitt
Mitt Romney
His
Reform
Tax
Hold
Tax Code
Wants
Romney
Paul
Your
Code
Actually
Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.
Clementa C. Pinckney
Life
Walls
Community
Our
Part
Calling
Within
Condition
Just
Which
Congregation
Resides
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.
Cliff Stearns
Religion
Legal
Atheist
Matter
Recognize
Moral
Ten
Ten Commandments
Fact
Contains
Document
Commandments
Historical
Person
Any
Ethical
Speaker
Even
Appreciate
During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights in a lawful and appropriate manner, and I believe it is important that we provide individuals with specific reassurance that we value those rights.
Colleen Hanabusa
Rights
Natural
Value
Free
Important
Natural Disasters
Believe
Appropriate
Those
Crisis
Civil
Constitutional
Lawful
Emergencies
Constitutional Rights
Remain
Individuals
Disasters
Exercise
Provide
Times
Persons
Manner
Reassurance
Specific
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
History
Man
Horror
Indignation
Occasional
Passing
His
Screen
Apathy
Flicker
Watches
States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.
Corrine Brown
Work
People
Economic Development
Safety
Important
Local
Back
States
Economic
Puts
Development
Most
Improve
Get
Improves
Infrastructure
Creates
Communities
Transportation
Enhances
The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.
Cory Booker
Natural
Genius
Country
Resource
Our
Greatest
Oil
Children
Natural Resource
Coal
Gas
I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.'
Cory Booker
Life
You
Yourself
My Life
Say
Hopeful
Worthy
Would
Frederick
Someone
Like
Look
Well
Well Done
Proven
Left
End
Legacy
Done
I thought that Donald Trump's ascendancy would end when he attacked John McCain, saying he's not a war hero. I found that shocking, for him to say that.
Cory Booker
War
Saying
Hero
Thought
Say
Would
John
John McCain
Attacked
He
Him
Trump
End
Shocking
Donald
McCain
Ascendancy
War Hero
Found
Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state.
Cory Booker
Spiritual
State
Give
Toxic
Cynicism
My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.
Cory Booker
Life
Faith
Religion
Me
Struggle
People
Judge
Treat
Simple
Walk
Somebody
Seen
Beauty
Past
Live
Consistently
Only
Point
How
Person
Staff
Mean
Watched
Need
May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.
Cory Booker
Achievement
Fight
Women
Soil
Men
Men And Women
Nation
Those
Worthy
Beaches
Sacrifices
Bled
Make
Proud
America
May
Gettysburg
Fields
Us
Who
Fought
Believers
Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.
Cory Booker
Future
Soul
Everybody
Definitely
Find
Soul Mate
Mate
Different
Want
Wants
What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value.
Cory Booker
Love
Dignity
Worth
Value
Other
See
Understand
To Love
Each
Need
Newark faces real challenges.
Cory Booker
Challenges
Faces
Real
Newark
The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.
Curt Weldon
Me
Own
Outrageous
Facts
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Bias
Print
Want
Agenda
Media
Slant
We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur.
Cynthia McKinney
King
John
John Kennedy
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Know
Tupac
Bobby
Bobby Kennedy
Really
Who
Kennedy
Luther
Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Saying
Time
Followers
Lead
Leaders
Also
Same
Front
Listen
Same Time
Meant
No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Man
Generation
Culture
Women
Down
Born
Through
He
Instead
Over
Handed
Dominion
Custom
Social
View
Popular
Media
Believing
Amplified
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