Kevin Cramer quotes

“One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.”
-- Kevin Cramer

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“I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.”
-- Kevin Cramer

Source : "New House members of 113th Congress: A-B-C". POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

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“My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.”
-- Kevin Cramer

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“The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.”
-- Kevin Cramer

#Responsibility Quotes #North Dakota Quotes #Coming Out Quotes

“I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.”
-- Kevin Cramer

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“Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin

“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”

“Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.”

“Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.”

“Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.”

Source : Twitter post from May 08, 2013

“Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.”

Source : Cats (1934) p. 20

“Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin

“It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.”

“When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.”

“Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu”