#institution

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#american #american people #campaign #distract #divide

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#institution #live #marriage #want #who

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#belong #contradictions #each #european #european union

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people. ↗

— Richard Neal

#after #american #american people #borrow #day

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#building #building blocks #enacting #fundamental #huge

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#become #doubt #importance #inclined #influence

And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#appropriate #country #economic #economic policy #environment

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism. ↗

— Rand Paul

#always #been #courage #had #i

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts. ↗

— Keith Preston

#equal #institution #parts #which #whole

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#come #flow #freedoms #fundamentally #institutions