C. J. Dennis Quotes

I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my neighbors can get an increase in their wages.

In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.

America as a nation cannot walk in faith and fear at the same time.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.

Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

To me, nature always appears more unbalanced than Gary Busey with a clogged Eustachian tube.

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

The man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. Dropped it! Upon hearing the news, Simmons sadly responded, "You mean I'm not going to prison?"

That receiver was as wide open as Annabel Chong.

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

I love this country for several reasons, not the least of which is that I know I'm allowed to hate it if I want to.

The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists.

How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

Branson, Missouri, is Vegas for people with no teeth.

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They're *football* players, for chrissakes!

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

Americans stick their nose where it doesn't belong more than Cyrano de Bergerac giving head.

Is global warming new? I don't know. When I was young I remember the sun being hot.

South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.

Women don't like guys who are dangerous. Women just want us to think that because women are trying to kill us.

Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds.

Everybody is full of crap. The coin of the realm is being full of crap. The best people - being full of crap are our leaders and our superstars.

I think the people can bash Catholics because they know Catholics won't kill them. Quite frankly, there's some religions out there, you bash and they're going to kill you.

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

People think it's legalization, it's being sold as legalization-even though it's the opposite of legalization.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate

I prefer clarity over agreement

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.