#bout

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. ↗

— Steve Israel

#america #benefit #current #over #poverty

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#based #brag #bureaucracies #grow #growth

I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans. ↗

— Steve Israel

#believe #best #bipartisan #discussion #future

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about. ↗

— Steve Israel

#borders #currently #immigrants #know #live

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. ↗

— William James

#another #being #currents #dynamic #effective

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. ↗

— William James

#any #attitude #curse #glad #grin

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#ad #bailey #i #just #lib

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#count #jazz #one thing #playing #real

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#dullness #image #only #the only thing #thing

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me. ↗