Linda Chavez
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It's time conservatives seized
wilderness conservation as their issue, rather than leaving it to the
environmentalists. (source)
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We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar
marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag. (source)
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I have decided that I am becoming a distraction and
therefore, I have asked President Bush to withdraw my name as secretary of
labor. (January 9, 2001, withdrawal speech, Washington, D.C.)
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So long as the game in Washington is a game of
search and destroy, I think that we will have very few people who are
willing to do what I did, which was to put myself through this in order to
serve. (January 9, 2001, withdrawal speech, Washington, D.C.)
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I believe that I would have made a great Secretary
of Labor. I believe that President Bush is going to make a great
President. (January 9, 2001, withdrawal speech, Washington, D.C.)
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It comes
as a shocking surprise to professors at Stanford, Harvard and other elite
universities, but teaching immigrant children in English actually seems to
help them learn the language. (source)
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We need to let the world know it
is possible to celebrate long years of married life. But it doesn't happen
by accident. Marriage requires commitment to something greater than
ourselves. And if those of us who have succeeded at marriage aren't
willing to lead the way, who will? (source)
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For nearly 30 years, the federal
government has coerced both the public and the private sectors to prefer
some groups over others, all in the name of ending discrimination. We now
have literally hundreds of federal, state, and local laws, regulations,
and programs that purport to promote nondiscrimination but instead give
preference to some individuals over others in hiring, promotion,
contracting, and admission to higher education based on the individual's
race, ethnicity, or sex, it is a system that cannot be reformed and ought
simply to be abandoned. (source)
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Until more Hispanic parents begin
insisting their kids go on to college, Hispanic educational attainment --
and lifetime earnings -- will lag behind other groups. (source)
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Re the Elian Gonzalez case: Perhaps
the lesson for the American people in all of this is that the failure to
care enough about Bill Clinton's little lies has emboldened him to engage
in the tyrant's Big Lie. (source)
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But it's not campaign finance
reform that worries most people about Al Gore. It's the lying, stupid. (source)
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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