30 Quotes by Richard Baker

she was a brave, brave woman. She stood up and sat down at a moment in American history, when very few other people thought that was appropriate or had the courage to do it - in 1955. She said, 'Why should I be a second-class citizen? I'm an American, and that's all that should really matter. I'm willing to take the consequences.' And she did. She became a role model for generations that followed. She certainly has to be in the front rank of American heroes.

Now your people that live out there and your vacationers have no water,

I was surprised to learn that Puccini wrote The Marriage of Figaro, but much encouraged by the substantial support for the teaching of music in schools.

I would be very hard pressed to think of a good historical analogy. I don't think there is one.

Business will be pretty brisk for the next couple of months, once they get power and they get water out of the city.

There is great concern ... that bulldozers will run, people's property will be taken, and they will be dispossessed from their communities and unable to return, ... This proposal will not do that.

What we enable with the passage of this bill is the creation of an independent regulator with all the tools necessary to protect the taxpayer, ... This is a fair compromise.

He's finally found his own venture. We're happy for him but sad after this amount of time.

It could have happened 100 years ago -- two powerful senators struggling with the meaning of the Constitution,