Quote by Eric Massa

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potent

Summary

In this quote, the speaker explains their decision to leave a political party due to multiple factors. Firstly, they mention their personal battle with cancer and the need for their attention to be directed towards that. Secondly, they express their opposition to the Democratic leadership and a belief that their proposed healthcare legislation will be detrimental to the nation. Lastly, they express disappointment, feeling that their party has become what they originally campaigned against, which further reinforces their decision to leave.

Topics

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, an

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary th

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Michael Bloomberg

I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've

I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

Hello, I am Oscar Wilde

Hello, I am Oscar Wilde

Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment

Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness. (14)

Jean-Yves Leloup

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrat

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it si

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valo

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to po

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

....he thinks about his boyhood, and he mourns his vanished

....he thinks about his boyhood, and he mourns his vanished youth -Now, who would live his life again, or face it? Tell the truth.I am mighty glad my boyhood and my youth are far away-I am in the straight for Fifty

Henry Lawson, When there is Trou

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can affor

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson