Full Name:
Gayle Jordan
Gender:
Female
Family:
single; 4 children:Ben, Sam, Amy, Glenda
Birth Date:
11/18/1960
Birth Place:
Corpus Christi, TX
Home City:
Murfreesboro, TN
Religion:
none
No education information on file.
No political experience information on file.
No caucus information on file.
Owner, small farm
No organizational membership information on file.
Favorite Quote:
"When you are finished changing, you are finished" Benjamin Franklin
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
"When is the last time you did something for the first time?" Gayle Jordan
"Just keep swimming" Dorry
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware" Henry Miller
"Life should NOT be a slow, plodding journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and
screaming, 'WOOO HOOO, what a ride!'"
Lance Armstrong, from ET Newsmagazine, 2004:
"If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts."
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." Thomas Jefferson
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." Carl Sagan
"Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends! Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!" ~Ned Flanders, The Simpsons
"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural - that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling of the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust." Robert G. Ingersoll
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
~ Galileo Galilei
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. William Drummond
"Funny how science gets it all RIGHT when you want a computer, medical science to eliminate smallpox or treat your erectile dysfunction, anti-lock brakes to save your life--but all evolutionists, using the scientific method you take advantage of all day long, are wrong."
-Rob Mickus
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ...Alvin Toffler
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
--A. A. Milne
The first key to wisdom is constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at truth.
---Peter Abelard
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. --Isaac Asimov
I am an atheist. I am not an atheist because it's cool. I am not an atheist because of religious extremism or oppression in some depraved corners of the world. I am not an atheist because I don't think evil can exist in a world without god. I am not an atheist because I think science can disprove god. I am an atheist because of one simple fact: The burden of proof lies on religion. If you propose the existence of something, you must follow the scientific method in your defense of its existence. Otherwise, I have no reason to listen to you. --Atheist Revolution
"Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, peace, joy, and wisdom will come to you that way." Christopher Hitchens
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." Thomas Jefferson
Timendi causa est nescire
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions
"A person's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." -- Albert Einstein
"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own." - Bertrand Russell
Reason for Seeking Public Office:
After graduating and passing the Bar, I received the coveted law license I had always wanted. How could I help the most people with my skills and education? How could I correct injustices in my community? How could I improve the lives of my fellow citizens, to decrease their suffering and increase their participation in our great country and beautiful state?
It is the drive for the answers to those questions which has compelled me to run for state Senate. I believe the citizens of the 14th District deserve to be well-represented in the legislature. I believe their needs should be addressed, and their voices heard. It is time for common-sense governing, and reasonable, rational solutions to actual problems.