#co

I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will continue to fight for the funding that will secure high-risk targets, such as our ports and borders. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#borders #close #continue #essential #fight

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#case #certain #comes #concentrating #difficulty

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#courage #disinterested #government #intelligence #know

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from? ↗

— Philip Pullman

#am #bang #before #begin #come

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world. ↗

— Big Pun

#best #core #first #hard #i

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#many #moment #private #reward #rich

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.' ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#any #confrontation #does #holy #kind

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. ↗

— Pythagoras

#continues #destroyer #each #health #kill

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#been #confused #great #hurt #i

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings. ↗

— Hesham Qandil

#american #apply #attacking #buildings #compound