35 Quotes by Eleanor Clift

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice ring to it. We call it 'volunteers', but we're basically paying people to serve their country. And if you're going to pay people and have a mercenary Army, you're going to have to pay the market rate. And so the bounties are going up—more money for tuition, higher enlistment bonuses—and I think it's appropriate.

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

I was living out a parallel situation in my own life, ... feeding frenzy.

There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the failure of the federal government that has people in this country worried.

The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of government and our leaders at the local level, at the state level and at the presidential level.

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can’t keep mum.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante.