#chi

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#bill #congress #emergency #great #large

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#achievements #call #claim #experiments #failures

This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#teaching #education

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#dream #football #i #leather #poor

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine. ↗

— China Chow

#even #hearing #i #like #machine

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#i #interested #kung #kung fu #most

Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meeting by a professor of electrical engineering in the graduate school I of MIT. He said that after reading the book he realized that his graduate students were using on him, and had used for the ten years and more he had been teaching there, all the evasive strategies I described in the book — mumble, guess-and-look, take a wild guess and see what happens, get the teacher to answer his own questions, etc. But as I later realized, these are the games that all humans play when others are sitting in judgment on them. ↗

— John Holt

#education #schooling #education

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America. ↗

— Chris Christie

#already #america #american #american dream #demonize

If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning. ↗

— Fred Upton

#beginning #china #continues #costs #efforts

The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve. ↗

— Chris Christie

#back #control #country #entitlement #getting