#cia

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#budget #collapse #decisions #financial #financial collapse

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#convince #country #discomfort #especially #get

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#fully #old #slave #songs #themselves

It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#now #security #social #social security

Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#darkroom #discover #going #hand #i

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#bachelor #been #born #every #orphan

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#before #college #drop-out #dropped #even

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#empires #especially #fates #i #i can

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#always #appearance #especially #good #guest

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#being #classed #even #first #fought