#insist

We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#also #billion #breaks #certainly #could

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me. ↗

— Jon Secada

#contract #english #even #got #i

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#democratic #democratic state #dream #entirety #everything

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it. ↗

— Helen Slater

#being #better #better mother #creative #daughter

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#despite #england #faults #germans #germany

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. ↗

— Steve Allen

#cheerleaders #insist #our #presidents #rational

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#ceased #curtailment #danger #grave #grave danger

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#classes #discomfort #expense #insist #marvels

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#arrangement #i #insist #just #latest

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#also #anyone #capable #eagerly #else