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There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bad #common #common ground #confidence #disagree

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class. ↗

— Peter Welch

#been #class #congress #conscious #here

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing. ↗

— Robert Welch

#alone #building #committee #congressional #dry

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#being #believe #better #between #connections

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#enchanting #full #great #may #out

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#counted #during #father #first #great

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#blessings #each #grown #i #last

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#dancing #depression #evening #folks #good

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America? ↗

— Allen West

#america #constitution #could #evolved #failed

One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality. ↗

— Allen West

#also #because #care #confront #criminality