Linda Chavez Quotes

• Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

  Linda Chávez

  Success, Art, Creating

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• When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

  Linda Chávez

  United States, Citizens, Welfare

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• Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

  Linda Chávez

  Believe, Black, Minorities

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• We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

  Linda Chávez

  Peace, Brave New World, Price Tag

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• Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

  Linda Chávez

  Female, Modesty, Natural

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• Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

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  Choices, Leader, Selfless

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• Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

  Linda Chávez

  Government, Sea, Digging

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• Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

  Linda Chávez

  White, Rights, Violence

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• Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.

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  Girl, Jeans, Back In The Day

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• Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

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  Heyday, Cards, Literature

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• Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

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  Believe, Enemy, Literature

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• Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

  Linda Chávez

  Government, Practice, Literature

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• Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

  Linda Chávez

  Military, Lasts, Republican

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• One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

  Linda Chávez

  Technique, Mistreatment, Torture

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• The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

  Linda Chávez

  Literature, Atrocities, Institutions

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• The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

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  Law, Employment, Literature

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• Aunque una proporción cada vez mayor de la población hispana ha nacido en el extranjero -aproximadamente la mitad de los adultos de este grupo-, el dominio del inglés es y debe seguir siendo un requisito para obtener la ciudadanía.

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  Groups, Population, Half

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• Some 3,500 Muslims now serve in the U.S. military. The overwhelming majority of them are loyal Americans who see no conflict between their personal religious duty and service to their country. But there can no place in our military for those persons of any faith who do. America has now seen the horrors of what 'diversity at any cost' can lead to.

  Linda Chávez

  Country, Religious, Military

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• Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.

  Linda Chávez

  Sex, Wall, Stress

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• The terrorists hide behind Allah.

  Linda Chávez

  Literature, Terrorist, Behinds

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• The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.

  Linda Chávez

  September 11, Target, May

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• Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

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  War, Iraq, Rights

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• Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

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  Data, President, Literature

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• For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

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  Blanco, Gente, Negro

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• The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.

  Linda Chávez

  New York, Revenge, Team

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