Henry F. Ashurst famous quotes

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.
-- Henry F. Ashurst

#People #Voting #Special

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
-- Henry F. Ashurst

#Men #Political #Principles

Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.
-- Henry F. Ashurst

#Silence #Brain #Substitutes

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.
-- Henry F. Ashurst

#Skating #Politics #Want

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...
-- Henry F. Ashurst

#Earth #Chance #Opinion

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.
-- Henry F. Ashurst

#Speech #Information #Entertaining

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.
-- Henry F. Ashurst

#Matter #Pounds #Canyons

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.

I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

I think talented people are priceless. And I think people that are knowledgeable and experienced - and I think there's a balance of new talent and experience, which makes, I think, Estee Lauder really special.

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.