C. H. Dodd Quotes

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble!

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.

A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them

My teeth are all my own. I've just finished paying for them.

Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.

Only those who row the boat make waves

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.

Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Either love your players or get out of coaching.

Life is too short to dance with ugly men

Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.

For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.