#iv

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#arrived #been #country #dakota #first

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#funding #instead #more #prisons #sentencing

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#chance #couples #day #elimination #gift

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. ↗

— Orson Welles

#because #been #cave #civilization #eating

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. ↗

— Orson Welles

#major #mud #pies #teach #today

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#boiled #diet #fat #fish #live

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters. ↗

— Dana Spiotta

#motivation #life

Many outsiders clarified that they believe Christians have a right (even an obligation) to pursue political involvement, but they disagree with our methods and our attitudes. They say we seem to be pursuing an agenda that benefits only ourselves; that we expect too much out of politics; they question whether we are motivated by our economic status rather than faith perspectives when we support conservative politics; they claim we act and say things in an unchristian manner; they wonder whether Jesus would use political power as we do; and they are concerned that we overpowered the voices of other groups. ↗

— David Kinnaman

#politics #attitude

I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic. ↗

— Allen West

#american #american people #antithesis #constitutional #constitutional republic

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America. ↗

— Allen West

#america #american #away #conservative #conservative values