#claim

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#best #broke #claim #doubt #falling

The Proclaimers thunder through my head. Imagine it. Imagine killing someone to the tune of two Scottish nerds wearing glasses and flattop haircuts. How will I ever listen to that song again? What will I do if it comes on the radio? I'll think of the night I murdered another man and stole his life with my own hands. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#murder #the-proclaimers #imagination

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#greatness #many #presidents #success #war

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#command #editing #editor #even #first

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#charitable #commit #courses #design #discretion

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#despotism #despots #divided #increases #more

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#budget #bush #bush administration #claims #crisis

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. ↗

— Anne Rice

#dickens #driving #forces #i #mentor

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#asked #class #count #family #father

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#claim #fact #fame #first #i