Tom Cole Quotations

I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.

Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing.

Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.

I admire Grover Norquist. I think hes done a lot of good.

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

We're in an exceptionally challenging electoral environment. We start off on a battlefield today that is tilted in their direction, and that's when you have to use the advantages you have.

We're looking in the crystal ball. We're moving into an area where we don't know what will happen.

Neither one of these guys can put the other guy away.

If we can do something positive on Katrina relief or immigration reform we'll be fine by the end of the year.

I don't know a lot of Spanish, but I get calls (from other officers) all the time to translate.

I don't know why anybody aspires to the job. It is just a problem job, dealing with problems messy by nature, people at wit's end, crisis situations.

I don't know why anybody aspires to the job,

I think the congressional agenda has been more realistic and frankly more limited than Bush's. The Bush presidency has a lot of big ideas, which is generally good thing, but there just is not a lot of legislative follow-through.

It is like everytime I got the WWF into a legal situation I won hands down, and if I can take anything away from this that makes me feel really good.

really went out of his way to establish that, I think, because he knows there's a legitimate concern and he doesn't want people who are innocent of any wrongdoing to be suspected of any wrongdoing.

I was told not to go to Madison Square Garden anymore and many of these things are unheard of if you're in wrestling. They blackballed me out of the company.

Members know this is a very difficult moment -- if we don't hang together we fall apart.

There are about the same number of ethics issues in both parties. But when you're the majority party you get disproportionately more scrutiny.

When I watch a NASCAR race, I watch every aspect of it, ... Especially the way pit crews operate. I admire how organized they are, how synchronized it appears. I explained to the young soldiers that I wanted them to act just like a pit crew and get people checked out in a hurry.

We signed on 101 new members, and they were all from Hopkinsville.

The WWF knows I have been telling the truth since the beginning, and they really can't handle someone who has the truth on their side.

These are serious numbers. The question is whether this is a trend or a reaction to Katrina and Rita.

The roommate thing seems to be purely coincidental. ... No connection there whatsoever.

Advances in logistics and distribution center technology allow us to handle a larger volume of goods more effectively with fewer facilities that are more regional in nature.

It's to Jim McCrery's credit that he is willing to help the entire GOP effort across the board.

I know the option of using these trailers will be very helpful for those who need to stay close to their property.

important for the committee and for the House that its actions be viewed as nonpartisan and objective by the members of this institution and by the public.

If you look at some of the most successful people in history, at some point they all failed, but they didn't quit or give up.

He said, 'We're continuing our investigation, but as every day goes by it just seems less and less likely. ... This looked like an individual act,

"Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.

Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador.

Karamakate says, "to become a warrior, every Cohiuano man must leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams. In that journey, he has to discover, in solitude and silence, who he really is."

And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see these outsiders following in each other's footsteps as the same person, a single soul traversing across several lives. They also see time as something that doesn't proceed inexorably into the future.

The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in the early-to-mid 20th century. In the film, they're both guided by Karamakate, as a young man early in the story and later as an old shaman. He and the outsiders share a desire for knowledge - self knowledge and an understanding of the world around them, says the film's co-screenwriter, Jacques Toulemonde.

So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. He [Guerra] went there before shooting began, with a script written mostly in Spanish.

In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists.

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history,