#iona

Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police. ↗

— Theresa May

#home #just #office #operational #police

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. ↗

— Theresa May

#civil #civil liberties #committed #duty #erosion

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

#consensus #convictions #debated #differences #durable

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. ↗

— John McCarthy

#bureaucrats #even #even worse #often #professional

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. ↗

— John McCarthy

#between #brief #capitalism #countries #feudalism

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#always #american #among #any #bad

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#awakens #cannot #fact #hunger #insatiable

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#national #national pastime #pastime #poetry #reading

Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway. ↗

— Zach Wahls

#gay-and-lesbian #inspirational #courage

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security. ↗