| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 24968 |
| QUOTATION: | A leaky faucet, a barking dog—those are things you tolerate. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Candace Gingrich (b. c. 1967), U.S. computer technician and gay/lesbian rights activist. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 24 (March 13, 1995).
The half-sister of conservative Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (b. 1943), she was responding to remarks he had made that she considered offensive to homosexuals and to his recommendation that homosexuality be “tolerated.” |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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