#cons

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#every #question #touchstone

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#consisting #course #debate #debts #decades

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#being #conservative #having #inconsistent #nothing

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built. ↗

— Gray Davis

#build #built #consequence #early #earnest

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage. ↗

— Judy Davis

#because #boy #california #caught #consensus

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#considered #everything #exacting #goes #less

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#also #civilians #constitute #desert #except

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#being #consensus #had #hear #other

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#amendment #american #american people #constitutional #constitutional amendment

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe