Mark Pocan quotes

Mark Pocan quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.”
-- Mark Pocan

Source : "Congress Must Act to Prevent Student Loan Rates From Doubling" by Mark Pocan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.

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“I did sit down with Jared Polis (D-CO), and we had a good discussion about having the LGBT [Equality] Caucus pool some money and perhaps hire a staffer like some of the other caucuses do. That way we could hopefully be even more proactive on issues like ENDA, student non-discrimination and some of the other bills that are out thereitâ€™s just a matter of now figuring out â€” having seven of us total â€” how can we best move those forward either through legislation and working with the president to issue orders.”
-- Mark Pocan

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“I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.”
-- Mark Pocan

Source : "Recent Reports Show Need for Congress to Act on Climate Change" by Rep. Mark Pocan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2014.

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“The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".”
“Rent' was my first professional job, ever.”
“An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.”

Source : "Aaron Tveit Will Be Received". Interview with Dawn Kay, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.
“That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.”

Source : "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.
“While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.”
“Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.”
“Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.”
“The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.”

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