#embers

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #being #black #did #difficult

That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership. ↗

— David Campbell

#growth #into #little #long-term #lots

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#congress #dollars #government #help #members

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#because #been #came #course #environment

Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#had #his #lord #members #party

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#because #bureau #came #certain #communicating

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#family #family members #i #members #only

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#forgiveness #hierarchy #i #judgment #made

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#before #count #couple #credibility #election

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. ↗

— John Linder

#countries #deplorable #examples #few #human