#dent

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#being #changed #could #due #everything

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#balance #certain #challenges #conservatives #fiscal

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#am #become #council #i #i am

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency.The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#barack obama #calls #economy #four #inherited

Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#biggest #biggest challenge #biggest challenges #budget #challenge

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#benefits #cutting #economic #entering #europe

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#before #chance #gets #getting #history

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#although #american #american history #attention #body

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#dependent #deteriorated #economic #find #happened

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#also #branch #built #cost #dependent