#govern

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#alaska #because #blamed #go #governor

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#good #good intentions #government #innocence #instead

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#forbid #governments #interested #iran #like

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible. ↗

— Mario Monti

#credible #government #loved #respected

There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed. ↗

— Mario Monti

#confirmation #confirmed #europe #fact #go

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon. ↗

— Mario Monti

#demand #government #hidden #italy #jargon

Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#creatures #cute #fight #fighting #folks

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#another #another way #around #aware #believe

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#excitement #fabric #governed #gravity #i

The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution. ↗

— Evo Morales

#bolivia #constitution #different #framework #goal