#ld

It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#build #coalition #companies #daschle #decade

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#bush #bush administration #consumer #did #filling

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air. ↗

— Esther Williams

#dollar #feet #gold #i #mermaid

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies. ↗

— Esther Williams

#could #felt #how #i #i always

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#doing #fun #get #i #kid

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim. ↗

— Xenophon

#barley #beer #drank #drink #held

The minority yields to the majority! ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#minority #yields

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#i #i always #male #many #men

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#buildings #easily #environment #find #future

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient. ↗

— Mo Yan

#am #ancient #aware #beings #crises