Louise Slaughter Quotes
Sad Quotes by Louise Slaughter

Credit card companies pay college students generously
to stand outside dining halls,
dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow
students to apply for credits cards.
- Louise Slaughter

We have record high temperatures and record high energy
prices across the country,
and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme
temperatures in the past.
- Louise Slaughter

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing
of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
- Louise Slaughter

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing
the health of women and children,
preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.
- Louise Slaughter

Let's clean up our environment.
Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly,
let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted
before they are even born.
- Louise Slaughter

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school,
are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.
- Louise Slaughter

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and
other remarkable leaders,
women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
- Louise Slaughter

For most women, including women who want to have children,
contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
- Louise Slaughter

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association,
refuted ideas that women were inferior to men,
and fought for a woman's right to vote.
- Louise Slaughter

And whether it is equal pay, health care,
Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has
refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.
- Louise Slaughter

Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy,
brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.
- Louise Slaughter

This House cannot function without an open,
accountable, and independent ethics process;
and the molestation of that process by the majority
is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
- Louise Slaughter

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase
contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
- Louise Slaughter

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do
a better job of training new and existing first responders
to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.
- Louise Slaughter

We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research
which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases
affecting millions of Americans.
- Louise Slaughter

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for
preventing unintended pregnancies.
- Louise Slaughter

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing
the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
- Louise Slaughter

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with
Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.
- Louise Slaughter

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working,
it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the
bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
- Louise Slaughter

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets
of this sprawling country,
where big touring companies will rarely go,
and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
- Louise Slaughter

Women in the service put themselves in harms way to
protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad.
The least we can do is ensure they are protected when
facing a horrible tragedy.
- Louise Slaughter

The U.S.
has the finest research scientists in the world,
but we are falling far behind other countries,
like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward
with embryonic stem cell research.
- Louise Slaughter

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts,
as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services,
we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.
- Louise Slaughter

While other industries have suffered,
the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength
while it encourages the growth of innumerable small
businesses on its periphery,
thereby creating more jobs.
- Louise Slaughter

Honesty, integrity, and accountability,
the values, which should be the hallmark of this government,
have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority,
casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability
those who abuse this House.
- Louise Slaughter

Half of all women who are sexually active,
but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded
services to help them access public health programs
like Medicaid and Title X,
the national family planning program.
- Louise Slaughter

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want,
but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name,
he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that
Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.
- Louise Slaughter

That we have children coming into this world already polluted,
at the same time we don't know what the effects of
that pollution will be on their mental and physical development,
is both bad policy and immorally wrong.
- Louise Slaughter

It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother
rather than all major credit cards.
- Robert Orben

Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay
gets another person who can't pay
to guarantee that he can pay.
- Charles Dickens

Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker

Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

What this country needs is a credit card for
charging things to experience.
- Tom Wilson

There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff

This is my ultimate fantasy:
watching QVC with a credit card
while making love and eating at the same time.
- Yasmine Bleeth

There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets
the credit for doing them.
- Benjamin Jowett

We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform
in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve.
It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
- William Westmoreland

No person will make a great business who wants to do
it all himself or get all the credit.
- Andrew Carnegie

When women love us, they forgive us everything,
even our crimes; when they do not love us,
they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
- Honore de Balzac

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society,
is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
- Bertrand Russell

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.
- Little Richard

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not
be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
- Dwight Morrow

Credit...
is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.
- James Blish

I mean that what makes me a professional,
but the market itself has been fabulous during this
whole period and I've got to give the market credit
before I give myself credit.
- Jim Cramer

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.
- John Engler

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
- George Herbert

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
- Irving Thalberg

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills.
He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself.
John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
- Judy Johnson

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued,
give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
- Philip Massinger

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he
does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.
- Charles Edward Montague

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
- Casey Stengel

Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing
for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch,
she to this day never gets credit.
It really kills me.
- Terry Zwigoff

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down
is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
- Al Gore

There can be a lot done if you are not so particular
about who gets credit for it.
- John Freeman

People will always consider me a cartoon character,
a bimbo.
They will never give me credit.
- Jessica Hahn

The true credit for our safety and security goes to
our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq
and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.
- Asa Hutchinson

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax,
in order to gain credit in the world.
- Angela Carter

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today -
and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African.
So Black people need to get the credit for that.
- Carlos Santana

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least
himself and burden others most with the things for
which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
- Theodor Adorno

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without
her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
- Billie Jean King

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy,
to victims, their families, employers,
friends, and credit-card companies.
- Keith Henson

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies
you didn't intend to be there.
- Spike Lee

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions,
but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
- Arthur Erickson