Home / Quotes / Quote by Dan Maffei

Quote by Dan Maffei

“In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.”

Author

Dan Maffei is a former United States Representative from New York's 25th congressional district. Born on July 4, 1968, he focused on technology and education during his tenure in office. more

“The fact that other countries spy on their own people or spy on each other does not address the fact that the US is engaged in massive, bulk collection to the tune of 70.3 million telecommunications a month in France of perfectly innocent people. That has nothing to do with protecting the United States, and has nothing to do with really gathering any kind of meaningful intelligence on France. It is an overreach ... and I think the other countries are justifiably outraged .... As one of our founders said: Those who choose between liberty and security deserve neither.”

“What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.”

Mean Challenges Investing Finance Fascinating Changing Nature

Book:More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times

Source: More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times

“Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.”

“Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.”

Government

Author:Bill Whittle

“The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not forget - the same ways we in the United States have caused much suffering in Southeast Asia, and have also suffered much in return, also for a lie. It was no small betrayal, no small lesson for a man to learn at the age of 19. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -the darkness that is always with us.”

“John Boehner - doesn't he look like every guy you've ever seen at a hotel bar? He looks like the kind of guy who licks his thumb when he counts his money.”

Looks Kind Guy Bars Hotel Thumbs

Author:David Letterman

“It is cold down in Washington, DC. They had to use an ice scraper on John Boehner's face to get the tears off, it was so cold.”

Use Faces Tears Cold Ice

Author:David Letterman

“I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.”

Men Said Heard Minutes Listening Rain Doctors Delay Yankees Announcers

Author:David Letterman

Quote by Dan Maffei

Author

You May Also Like