#amp

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#always #ample #anytime #aside #balanced

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#amplification #being #high #human #human being

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#back #character #crisis #faced #falls

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#blood #blood pressure #care #covered #example

With President Obama, there's a feeling that he gets it. He has women in his life. He knows that our health care is important, that it's important able to get access to the care that we need when we need it. That's what translates. Women hear that when they hear him speak about these issues. He will be a champion and will defend us when we need it. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#about #access #care #champion #defend

My biggest frustration with the Heisman is it's become the MVP of the national champion, or a team going to the National Championship game. That's what it's turned into. If you're not undefeated, you're out of the running. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#biggest #champion #championship #frustration #game

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#discipline #example #exceptional #for example #i

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it. ↗

— James Forrestal

#circumstances #difficult #difficult circumstances #europe #faced

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him. ↗

— Garrett Fort

#him #people #strength #vampire #will

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack obama #behalf #brutish #building #campaign