Bill Delahunt quotes

Bill Delahunt quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.”
-- Bill Delahunt

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“Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.”
-- Bill Delahunt

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“What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.”
-- Bill Delahunt

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“Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.”
-- Bill Delahunt

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“If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan”
-- Bill Delahunt

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“Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.”
-- Bill Delahunt

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“We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
“I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.”

Source : "Interview: ‘Battle Creek’ star Dean Winters on nearly killing Josh Duhamel and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 1, 2015.
“O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me”
“Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say”

Source : Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage
“I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.”
“The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.”
“Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.”
“In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.
“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”

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