Kay Granger Quotes

• Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.

  Kay Granger

  Issues, Investment, Aids

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• Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

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  Rights, Liberty, Shadow

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• It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

  Kay Granger

  Character, Said, Has Beens

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• A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

  Kay Granger

  Names, Democracy, Middle East

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• Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

  Kay Granger

  Poverty, Investment, Aids

  "The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment" by Dan Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2011.

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• I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

  Kay Granger

  Selling, Firm, My Own

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• The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

  Kay Granger

  Als, Blame, Al Qaeda

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• I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

  Kay Granger

  Mother, Teacher, Teaching

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• In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.

  Kay Granger

  Fighting, Two, America

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• It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.

  Kay Granger

  Impact, Government, Glimpse

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• I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

  Kay Granger

  Country, School, Thinking

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