#it

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#between #communication #coordination #everyone #federal

I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught. ↗

— Don Johnson

#anything #been #caught #doing #either

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#dared #hear #i #i wonder #me

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#brings #end #good #home #in the end

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#i #others #pleaser #responsibilities #seriously

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe. ↗

— Bob Taft

#freedom #globe #land #like #live

If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#bar #bar mitzvah #boyfriend #come #comes

Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#anyway #because #disabilities #disabled #dress

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#elite #i #long #more #observed

Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us. ↗

— Bob Taft

#boldly #both #citizens #decisively #eyes