Gabrielle Giffords quotes
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“My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.”
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“I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.”
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“Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list,”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : "A Senate in the Gun Lobby's Grip". www.nytimes.com. April 18, 2013.
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“We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : "Giffords Tragedy: What’s the Message to Young Women Considering Public Service?" by Gloria Feldt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2011.
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“Be bold, be courageous, be your best.”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : "Giffords Urges Graduates at Bard to ‘Be Courageous’" by Vivian Yee, autoglassweek.com. May 25, 2013.
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“Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : "'Politics in Arizona Have Become Fueled by Hate…Driven by Anger': Rep. Raúl Grijalva on Shooting of Giffords". "Daily Show", www.democracynow.org. January 10, 2011.
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“Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : "Giffords Wins Re-election to U.S. House; Kelly Says Voters Have Spoken". Sierra Vista Herald, November 06, 2010.
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“My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : "Giffords: Too Soon to Settle on a Plan for Health Care". The Arizona Daily Star, August 11, 2009.
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“I will get stronger. I will return.”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly (2012). “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope”, p.321, Simon and Schuster
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“Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope". Book by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly, November 15, 2011.
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“But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : Commencement address at Scripps College, Claremont, California, 2009.
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“Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith,”
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“We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action.”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : "US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot as Six Die in Arizona Massacre" by Ben Quinn and Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. January 09, 2011.
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“Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.”
-- Gabrielle GiffordsSource : Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly (2011). “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster
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“The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.”
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“It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.”
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