#desi

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. ↗

#basically #behalf #consumers #corporate #designed

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#benefit #boost #designed #earners #enormous

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#adulthood #children #could #designed #educational

But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code. ↗

— Richard Neal

#america #code #could #cuts #democrats

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#design #far #good #great #lighting

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. ↗

— Marc Newson

#design #kind #mystify #need #people

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them. ↗

— Marc Newson

#i #interested #making #more #much

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality. ↗

— Marc Newson

#i #i think #important #kind #personality

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me. ↗