Quotes About Priorities

I have served in the Senate since December 2012 with seats on the Appropriations and Commerce committees and previously served as the lieutenant governor and in the state House. These positions provided me insights on Hawaii's priorities and how to effectively work with stakeholders to achieve meaningful results.

I will always have dogs in my life, and I absolutely can't be with someone who will challenge that or disagree with that stance - I will not budge on this, ever.

Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.

Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.

When money becomes more important than any other standard, then we're all in trouble.

What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal.

We don't have very many nights out on our own, and by most people's standards we don't have much of a social life. But for us the compromise works, and I think the best thing I ever did was to have a family.

I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand and serve their nation... really wipes away the distractions of some of the petty things we think are important at home.

Our country needs people who are maybe a little less focused on themselves and on the flash and a little more focused on how do we actually create a better environment for success for our young people, how do we get people back to work, how do we regain our standing internationally.

I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You're going to look back 20 years from now and of course you're going to remember the games. But I'm going to remember seeing my family in the stands.

You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.