Quotes About Author

A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.

If I take you back to the Nineties, our party came up with very bold reforms in the country, economic reforms. They were really revolutionary reforms.

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.

I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience.

The Heidelberg Catechism is like a refreshing bath with cool gospel water.

Writing 'Rainwater' was a refreshing change of pace... a change of everything, in fact.

Working in 'Mian Maqbool' was a refreshing experience.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

What mattered about Alan Kurdi's photograph was that it made Canadians very angry, and the Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats ended up competing with each other over which party was offering the most generous refugee policy.

Many people told me not to call the book '... Refugee' because Aussies won't buy it. I told them I have faith in Aussies, and it makes me a proud Aussie to see that the title hasn't hurt the book.

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.

Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.

I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.

There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.

If UCL did offer to reinstate me, it would be churlish of me to refuse, but really, my work there was over.

Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.

Democrats want to force their ideas on states that refuse to adopt their progressive, failed policies.

I get many offers from Tamil films but I refuse to do them because I get offers to do item songs.

There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.