#akin

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. ↗

— Barack Obama

#built #chasing #come #could #country

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples. ↗

— Barack Obama

#been #benefits #couples #done #each

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. ↗

— Barack Obama

#begun #better #bit #blood #children

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. ↗

— Barack Obama

#capital #capital gains #family #firm #form

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. ↗

— Dave Obey

#borne #care #charge #country #debt

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#audience #cannot #doctor #doing #feeling

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#duke #friend #i #jokes #life

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#artwork #being #enjoy #i #involved

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#artwork #being #enjoy #front #i

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me. ↗

— Will Oldham

#i #make #making #me #part