#iona

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#education #educational #find #future #going

We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing. ↗

— William H. Macy

#emotionally #even #free #huge #huge thing

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#boy #boy scout #congressional #finn #giving

I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#constitutional #conversation #couch #distracted #easily

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accountability #basis #being #being done #done

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. ↗

— James Madison

#charter #constitutional #derived #fountain #government

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. ↗

— John Major

#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept. ↗

— Laurette Taylor

#concept #emotional #mental #physical #picture

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#al #al gore #debates #different #gore