#action

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. ↗

— Barack Obama

#cannot #collaborative #cooperation #degree #effective

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#action #am #america #carried #convinced

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#american #because #class #classes #created

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#attention spans #carrying #course #credit #even

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#career #certainly #classes #considered #discussion

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be. ↗

— Ann Plato

#contented #education #fit #future #god

If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work. ↗

— John Podesta

#center #chapel #chapel hill #clinton #deal

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. ↗

— James K. Polk

#action #almost #although #chief #chosen

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive. ↗

— Thomas Nelson Page

#creation #earnest #face #fine #i