J Allard Quotes

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.

With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its life blood.

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

I think America is on the right track.

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.

Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.

To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.

These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.