#den

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#big #big government #cap-and-trade #energy #government

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#beliefs #big #costly #entities #even

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#dancer #first #grand #position #second

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#far #get #identify #too #you

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

I am determined to honour the confidence which has been extended to us by the people of our great land. And I say to all of those who have voted for us today, I say to each and every one of them that I will be a prime minister for all Australians. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australians #been #by the people #confidence #determined

The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#blame #burden #costs #decision #designed

There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#comes #confidence #embrace #forward #fully

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#alternative #among #been #bring #central

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#barbie #because #grow #grow up #identifying