E-mails to SMS: Guess the Quotes

Friday, January 5, 2007

Guess the Quotes

Hey there Steph,
Thanks to you, Jim, Chris, and Rebekah and a whole lotta fabulous (and I mean that in the very best sense of the word!!!) Americans - we've taken back the Country. Here are a few Guess the Quotes for the Voice Guy in celebration of this momentous occasion! The theme is the 110th Congress and its new leadership! Enjoy!
Cheers - your radical militant librarian,
Faye in Tulsa, OK

"The genius of our founders was that every two years, new members would bring to this House their spirit of renewal and hope for the American people. This Congress is reinvigorated, new members, by your optimism and your idealism, and your commitment to our country."
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi"

"Shortly, President Bush will address the nation on the subject of Iraq. It is the responsibility of the president to articulate a new plan for Iraq that makes it clear to the Iraqis that they must defend their own streets and their own security, a plan that promotes stability in the region and a plan that allows us to responsibly redeploy our troops."
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

"For our daughters and granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling. . . . Now the sky is the limit. Anything is possible."Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

“The Democrats are back, and the Congressional Black Caucus. is in the lead, in the lead! We envision a new direction that is there for all of the people, not just the privileged few, a direction that builds and strengthens the middle class.”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

“With the opening of the 110th Congress and the beginning of new Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, it’s time to start moving America forward. Guided by the spirit of bipartisanship, Democrats are ready to take this country in a new direction.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

Frank Herbert(1920 – 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune, and the five other novels in the series that followed it.

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