#lance

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#balance #balance of power #believe #centuries #century

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials to make them public. They should be public all the time, open to review by adversarial courts, and subject to change by an accountable legislature guided by an informed public. If Americans are not able to learn how their government is interpreting and executing the law then we have effectively eliminated the most important bulwark of our democracy. That’s why, even at the height of the Cold War, when the argument for absolute secrecy was at its zenith, Congress chose to make US surveillance laws public. Without public laws, and public court rulings interpreting those laws, it is impossible to have informed public debate. And when the American people are in the dark, they can’t make fully informed decisions about who should represent them, or protest policies that they disagree with. These are fundamentals. It’s Civics 101. And secret law violates those basic principles. It has no place in America. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#law #national-security #secrets #surveillance #change

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#economic #fragile #future #global #imbalances

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#band #behavior #certainly #complex #dave

In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget. ↗

— Andrew P. Harris

#budget #fight #healthcare #i #never

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job. ↗

— Ronnie Hawkins

#balance #band #best #good #good band

If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#applied #balance #basis #born #changed

We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#area #balances #checks #country #critical

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#because #came #elvis #gene #greased

Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#budget #consumption #entire #fair #federal