Dan Maffei famous quotes

SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
-- Dan Maffei

#Senior #Children #Low Income

I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
-- Dan Maffei

#Law #Decision #Care

I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
-- Dan Maffei

#Believe #I Believe #Progressive

For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.
-- Dan Maffei

#Football #Pain #Team

I was a very, very good congressman.
-- Dan Maffei

#Very Good #Congressman

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
-- Dan Maffei

#Support #Important #Adequate

In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
-- Dan Maffei

#Thinking #Problem #Politician

One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether its good for the middle class or not.
-- Dan Maffei

#Class #Effort #Priorities

I enjoy the company of prostitutes for the following reasons: It represses women, it's generally illegal.
-- Dan Maffei

#Reason #Illegal #Enjoy

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

Kat picked up a folder labeled Senior. "What are these? Bank records?" She did a double take, looking at Hale. "Did your dad really pay two million dollars to the campaign to elect Ross Perot?" "I..." Hale said, stumbling for words and thumbing through another file. "Wow. I guess my cousin Charlotte isn't really my cousin." "Don't worry," Kat said. "It looks like there might be a kid in Queens who is.

Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

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

Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S