#ability

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#america #entire #entire world #face #fortunes

China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#area #china #common #dealing #free

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Colin Powell

#capability #clearly #create #determined #i

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women. ↗

— Kyle D. Pruett

#competence #fulfilled #get #happier #her

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together. ↗

— Robert Reich

#around #assets #carry #financial #heads

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#basic #comforts #country #difficult #difficult time

The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#cover #covering #fact #going #government

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#bring #civil #civil war #created #dilemma

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#according #american #here #levied #only

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#exchange #feel #freedom #give #important