Matthias B. Tallmadge quotes

“Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust.”
-- Matthias B. Tallmadge

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“Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.”

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”

“A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.”

“I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.”

“Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.”

“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.”

“I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.”

“It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.”

Source : "Critics Concerned Electronic Voting Not Secure". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 27, 2006.