#gains

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. ↗

— Cory Booker

#also #avarice #calls #common #common sense

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#answer #demanding #engaged #great #himself

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#automatically #i #people #read #reading

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#been #certainly #give #made #me

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted. ↗

— Dee Brown

#back #been #book #came #done

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head. ↗

— James Buchan

#arab #both #defended #end #felt

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. ↗

— George W. Bush

#acts #against #attacks #carried #country

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver. ↗

— George W. Bush

#chaos #civilization #decisive #diversion #iraq

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#his #opinion #own #still #will

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#against #christian #communism #driving #driving force