#gis

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#any #bring #bush #bush administration #comprehensive

Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#component #health #health care #health care system #important

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#card #change #i #i tried #legislature

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#grew #i #little #musicologist #ohio

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#came #evil #genocide #history #how

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. ↗

— Edward Koch

#hands #legislature #moment #more #say

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#bad #become #believe #lead #legislation

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#sit #weigh #wisdom

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#colleges #cut #cuts #education #funding

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#aside #been #biologists #consistently #dangers