Jim Jeffords famous quotes

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
-- Jim Jeffords

#Educational #Envy #Important

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.
-- Jim Jeffords

#Issues #President #Fundamentals

Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
-- Jim Jeffords

#Order #People #Weapons

Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.
-- Jim Jeffords

#Divorce #Reality #World

A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely
-- Jim Jeffords

#Airports #Suffering #Alternatives

I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.
-- Jim Jeffords

#Mistake #Eye #Doe

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.