#erm

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

#boot #crack #damage #does #equivalent

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich. ↗

— Hans Frank

#advisory #also #background #committees #fading

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#anyone #becomes #bureaucracy #care #expensive

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#after #bad #bad habits #determined #good

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. ↗

— George Stigler

#before #central #chicago #close #department

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#definitely #i #may #seem #terms

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero. ↗

— Dawn French

#comedy #eric #hero #i #most

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight. ↗

— Dawn French

#being #comic #comic relief #costume #decide

Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#him #i #me #never #permission