#at

I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#congress #countries #country #democratic #either

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#careful #challenges #i #inadequate #jersey

We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#behalf #best #country #craft #depend

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#democracy #document #hours #intimidation #law

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#between #fixed #growing #growing up #i

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#farm #greatest #greatest city #i #lemonade

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#meant #meant to be #open #whatever #will

I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#i #life #never #punched #real

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#add #area #becoming #currency #desirability

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. ↗

— Anne Frank

#could #even #matter #only #prevent