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To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#benefits #continue #honor #improve #long

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#agree #certainly #cruel #currently #difficult

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#education #improve #know #nation #our

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#birth #defects #enact #i #legislation

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#businesses #does #drive #economy #give

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#better life #build #community #corps #countless

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#challenge #date #died #even #fastest

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do. ↗

— Beth Orton

#chord #embrace #i #i do #individuality

Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring. ↗

— Beth Orton

#expression #first #hearing #i #idea

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ↗

— George Orwell

#coincides #facts #foresee #future #grossly