#govern

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#annual #conference #family #government #had

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#crown #divided #enormous #estates #government

So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#basic #citizens #cut #governors #grappling

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#behind #colleges #community #created #displaced

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#ability #against #alone #bathtub #century

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#house #i #partner #really #want

Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#economic #federal #future #governors #grappling

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#dinner #gesture #governor #i #iraq

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#going #government #government program #grandma #plug