Quotes
Mark Twain
“Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“People want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
Richard Vedder
(Author of “Going Broke By Degrees: Why College Costs Too much”): “The Way to improve college affordability is for the government to disinvest in higher education and wean students from subsidies.”
Al Gore
“We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we’re proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change.”
U.S. Rep. John Lewis
“If it had not been for the March on Washington, we wouldn’t be where we are today,” said Rep. Lewis the sole surviving speaker from the 1963 march and one of the “Big Six” leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.…
Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin, former Senate/Clinton Budget Heads
“Social Security is a defining piece of the social fabric and an incredibly successful program. It doesn’t need to be fundamentally altered; rather, it needs only modest adjustments. It can continue to serve as a financial foundation.”
John Boehner, Speaker of the House
Commenting on the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington: “This is the story of how a president, a slave, a seamstress and a minister locked arms across time to deliver us from oppression. It’s a day for all ages.”
Terry O’Neill, President, National Organization for Women
“I will be speaking at the 50th anniversary of March on Washington to not only commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic I Have A Dream speech but also celebrate 50 years of achievement–and recognize all that remains to be done.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
( On Leadership) “Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”