#esp

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#american #as far as #chance #circumstances #deserves

We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it. ↗

— George Downing

#responsible #somebody

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#particularly #plays #shakespeare #visceral #were

There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong. ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#american people #attention #awful #because #been

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. ↗

— Doug Elmendorf

#care #care costs #changes #contrary #costs

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#greatness #mediocrity #needed #politics

No one respects a talent that is concealed. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#respects #talent

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#letters #beauty

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#civilized #civilized society #crimes #god #likely

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#again #behind #live #moments #now