Sheila Jackson Lee quote: "My new mission is, and I've said this to the White House, I want the Buy America to be real. I want the Buy America to be by small businesses, African American businesses, Latino and Asian, but in particular our African American businesses who heretofore couldn't even find the front door of government contracts."

The Fifth Amendment speaks specifically to denying someone their life and liberty without due proces...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

We cannot elect a president who provides no hope to the laid-off union worker, no hope for the mothe...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

This is a historical year for the Black Caucus, and we are reaching out to bring our community toget...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

I was in the Black Power movement. I feel as energized about Black Lives Matter. I don't feel in...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

Delays in rebuilding international good will are costing Americans lives in Iraq, and billions of do...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those wh...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

It is a historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

We are saddened by the tremendous devastation suffered by so many communities, families and individu...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. E...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

Can you tell me what's more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their F...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and th...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empower...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

Separating these two legislative initiatives would be like separating the flag from the Pledge of Al...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

As I reviewed the number of documents about John Roberts’ record, it is imperative that there is i...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberanc...
SHEILA GRAHAM

You can always trust the information given to you by people who are crazy; they have an access to tr...
SHEILA BALLANTYNE

It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nomina...
SHEILA E.

Hospital, and they raised money during the Jubilee in 1897 to enlarge it—’ ‘I don’t want one...
SHEILA NEWBERRY

I'm not getting emotionally involved any more. It makes me too angry.
SHEILA CORONEL

When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, erotic...
SHEILA JEFFRYS

You have the power to change the happiness level in someone’s life and in the process you change y...
SHEILA BURKE

It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes em...
SHEILA HANCOCK

We've been to New Orleans three or four times and just couldn't believe the people could be having s...
SHEILA ALLEN

a singular creative force in what may be called high-impact television.
SHEILA NEVINS

When a man is close to tears discussing his work and his lip quivers, he deserves bosses who punch b...
SHEILA NEVINS

He was suspended immediately, within minutes of his arrest.
SHEILA WEISS

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
SHEILA GRAHAM

The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, ...
SHEILA E.

There are lots of pieces that are unknown.
SHEILA SCHUSTER

You can always trust the information given to you by people who are crazy; they have an access to tr...
SHEILA BALLANTYNE

Those are the times when we really need to crunch down and get a stop somehow.
SHEILA ROUX

I don't even really know who Ron White is.
SHEILA ALLEN

We were expecting a plane of folks from FEMA, ... What we're doing now is working with families who ...
SHEILA ALLEN

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve i...
SHEILA ROWBOTHAM

In our day and age, cyberspace remains the most promising outlet for the exercise of the most elemen...
SHEILA CORONEL

I didn't realize, actually, at the time how terribly important this documentary was. I didn't know t...
SHEILA NEVINS

This documentary is about tapping into a celebration of gay people and prejudice against gay familie...
SHEILA NEVINS

Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the pro...
SHEILA JEFFREYS

There are some industry standards in flight numbering. For most carriers, all eastbound flights end ...
SHEILA WIEDEMANN

However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is tha...
SHEILA JEFFREYS

You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to dri...
SHEILA BURKE

If you make an error, it's already on the computer and you can correct it. You can also track a docu...
SHEILA ALLEN

those children will be coming into our district. We need to have kindergarten classrooms ready for t...
SHEILA ALLEN

If you made a movie about (evolutionary biologist Charles) Darwin now, it would be revolutionary. If...
SHEILA NEVINS

(The teams) washed cars, bared their legs, sold garage sale junk, offered luminaries, sold suns and ...
SHEILA BLANKENSHIP

That's probably one of the reasons we picked a volcano. It's enduring but unpredictable.
SHEILA HUGHES

The problems of this country are so profound, there's a prolonged impasse. I don't see any solution ...
SHEILA CORONEL

For me the problem is not political. The problem is social inequality. There is a mass of people who...
SHEILA CORONEL

Twelve hours. It can stretch out forever when you're waiting to hear the report on a biopsy. It can ...
SHEILA BLANKENSHIP

Jim Sullivan killed his wife. The state is going to prove it. We ask that you find him guilty.
SHEILA ROSS

When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, erotic...
SHEILA JEFFRYS

If you made a movie about (evolutionary biologist Charles) Darwin now, it would be revolutionary. If...
SHEILA NEVINS

To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to b...
SHEILA E.

It all hinges on getting a little bit of financing. If the funding doesn't come through, the I'll be...
SHEILA MCGREGOR

Sometimes we simply don't want to face the truth about ourselves; the myth reads so much better. Som...
SHEILA WALSH

The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.
SHEILA BURKE

Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.
SHEILA BURKE

(The Relay) was held with 12 hours of celebration, laughter, tears, reflection, walking -- and even ...
SHEILA BLANKENSHIP

You have done well," Grandfather said. "We thank you."
"We were afraid sometimes," Jetsam repli...
SHEILA MOON

That night after my parents had kissed me good night and closed my door, I got out of bed and took f...
SHEILA MOON

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
SHEILA ROWBOTHAM

There are lots of pieces that are unknown.
SHEILA SCHUSTER

respect mostly the people on the other side of the camera.
SHEILA NEVINS

Our area just has a low amount of fertilizer in the natural soil. They won't grow well without ferti...
SHEILA BOETTCHER

Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is b...
SHEILA JEFFREYS

I took the situation into my own hands — I was just being a mama.
SHEILA PORTER

As tragic as this result is, unfortunately, it is not a surprise. We have been afraid for several we...
SHEILA CROWLEY

Most people either love or hate old libraries. To some, a room like this--dim, high-ceilinged, dusty...
SHEILA CONNOLLY

in our own place.
SHEILA NEWBERRY

face. I’m a fool, he thought, chasing a dream like my uncle, and now it’s all turned to ashes. W...
SHEILA NEWBERRY

It's very insidious. They say they are studying filing sedition charges. They say they have lists, b...
SHEILA CORONEL

the neighborhood did not know what the school board and the district were thinking.
SHEILA ALLEN

I'm not trying to sell sex. I just don't like wearing a lot of clothes onstage.
SHEILA ESCOVEDO

I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen a...
SHEILA WALSH

Life is an all-encompassing art gallery. From the seasons ushering in change to the way a body moves...
SHEILA BURKE

It’s about letting yourself feel,
but not wallow;
it’s about leaning into love, not ...
SHEILA BURKE

Taoism is simply the complete acceptance of yourself as you are right in this moment. It's about rol...
SHEILA BURKE

Everything is in the root.
If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be a...
SHEILA BURKE

When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, y...
SHEILA BURKE

The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can...
SHEILA KOHLER

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
SHEILA BALLANTYNE

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exu...
SHEILA GRAHAM

If you made a movie about (evolutionary biologist Charles) Darwin now, it would be revolutionary. If...
SHEILA NEVINS

These issues should not be resolved with a Santa Claus yarmulke.
SHEILA GORDON

Weld County should be proud of the fact that we've been able to sustain this kind of event for 25 ye...
SHEILA AVERS

The critical issue is to have a mentor, period, ... You want a mentor who has clout and who can be h...
SHEILA WELLINGTON

...women's bodies are "inferiorised, stigmatized . . . within an overarching patriarchal ideology. SHEILA JEFFREYS

I never knew You lived so close to the floor,
but every time I am bowed down,
crushed by t...
SHEILA WALSH

We called his references. If you saw his recommendations, they were glowing. Nobody said anything ab...
SHEILA WEISS

his hands, trying to stem the
SHEILA NEWBERRY

When I think of Tao,
I think of the artist
Bob Ross and his famous painting techniques. ...
SHEILA BURKE

When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control...
SHEILA BURKE

Sometimes you’re going to
shine like the sun; sometimes you’re going to crumble to pieces....
SHEILA BURKE

I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was trai...
SHEILA E.

this daddy longlegs...became like a pet,' I offered. 'I remember that.'
'Not something you cou...
SHEILA HETI

But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has b...
SHEILA WALSH

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is...
SHEILA WALSH

You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to dri...
SHEILA M. BURKE

Everything is in the root.
If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be a...
SHEILA M. BURKE

It’s about letting yourself feel,
but not wallow;
it’s about leaning into love, not ...
SHEILA M. BURKE

When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control...
SHEILA M. BURKE

There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE

I would support a letter.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE

This is about giving consumers better information so they can make better choices for themselves.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE

Taoism is simply the complete acceptance of yourself as you are right in this moment. It's about rol...
SHEILA M. BURKE

If it affects drugs that people need the most, we will have to take a look at it.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE

For too long, we've allowed our facilities to operate without checks and balances. We just assume a ...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE

When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, y...
SHEILA M. BURKE

Sometimes you’re going to
shine like the sun; sometimes you’re going to crumble to pieces....
SHEILA M. BURKE

Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.
SHEILA M. BURKE

A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures.
SHEILA M. EBY

For too long, we've allowed our facilities to operate without checks and balances. We just assume a ...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE

Doesn't matter what other people do. The only competition you should beat is yourself. So strive to ...
SHEILA DELA PENA

You've had a year. I know people turn over and that those things happen. ... But I don't think we wa...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE

You have the power to change the happiness level in someone’s life and in the process you change y...
SHEILA M. BURKE

The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the salesman did.
SHEILA M. BURKE

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracte...
CURTIS JACKSON

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man ...
ANDREW JACKSON

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
ANDREW JACKSON

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dyla...
JACKSON BROWNE

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when yo...
PHIL JACKSON

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please...
JESSE JACKSON

We've all forgotten how to be original.
PETER JACKSON

People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern t...
JACKSON BROWNE

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
JESSE JACKSON

I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
PETER JACKSON

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material ...
SHIRLEY JACKSON

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a ...
JESSE JACKSON

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making th...
JACKSON POLLOCK

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
PHIL JACKSON

If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and al...
JACKSON BROWNE

It's weird because if I'm not doing anything, I get antsy. I feel like I always have to be d...
TREVOR JACKSON

I love my pets, and I'm a big animal lover. I also enjoy the nature and countryside.
AMY JACKSON

I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle...
PETER JACKSON

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovere...
ANDREW JACKSON

So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulator...
ALPHONSO JACKSON

It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is t...
TIM JACKSON

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people...
PETER JACKSON

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my...
JACKSON POLLOCK

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to wor...
JANET JACKSON

We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhy...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
JACKSON POLLOCK

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning come...
JESSE JACKSON

Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.
BO JACKSON

Growing up I had a horrible speech impediment. I stuttered to where I couldn't even talk in class. I...
BO JACKSON

I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I re...
REGGIE JACKSON

It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thin...
MAHALIA JACKSON

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back ...
SHIRLEY JACKSON

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and be...
JESSE JACKSON

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.
JACKSON PEARCE

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must lear...
REGGIE JACKSON

No man is ever old enough to know better.
HOLBROOK JACKSON

It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thin...
MAHALIA JACKSON

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down...
JESSE JACKSON

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
JACKSON POLLOCK

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in ...
JESSE JACKSON

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, ...
ANDREW JACKSON

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red a...
ANDREW JACKSON

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
MICHAEL JACKSON

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an ...
ROBERT JACKSON

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time.
CURTIS JACKSON

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
WANDA JACKSON

There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
WANDA JACKSON

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, ...
WANDA JACKSON

Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
WANDA JACKSON

They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vin...
WANDA JACKSON

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.
VICTORIA JACKSON

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
VICTORIA JACKSON

Sometimes I like to vent.
VICTORIA JACKSON

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I&#...
VICTORIA JACKSON

Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.
VICTORIA JACKSON

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscien...
VICTORIA JACKSON

I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his foo...
PARIS JACKSON

Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say...
PARIS JACKSON

My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't...
PARIS JACKSON

I want to be my own person.
PARIS JACKSON

I want to help people. That's it.
PARIS JACKSON

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