#isa

While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory. ↗

— Mara Liasson

#college #deficit #disadvantage #educated #factory

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#beset #citizen #compliment #evidence #good

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#atm #before #characters #chinese #competed

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#disarm #each #enough #find #history

I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war. ↗

— Ken Lucas

#because #bipartisan #commander-in-chief #felt #i

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet. ↗

— John Lynch

#basic needs #children #citizens #disabilities #economic

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accept #authority #basic #calls #credibility

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#dice #failure #i #improvisation #just

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#breaking #consequences #decision #disastrous #explore

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do. ↗

— Judith Martin

#everything #right #you