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You don't go into politics unless you want to win. ↗

— Rand Paul

#into #politics #unless #want #win

You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party. ↗

— Rand Paul

#bigger #party #unless #win #you

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts. ↗

— Ron Paul

#america #assumes #between #compromise #conflicts

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us? ↗

— Ron Paul

#consider #countries #endlessly #foreign #foreign policy

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?' ↗

— Ron Paul

#conservative #declaration #full #go #other

I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#another #around #audit #biological #came

I feel really blessed because of where I come from. ↗

— Katy Perry

#blessed #come #feel #i #i feel

No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#almost #another #baby #behind #boomer

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race. ↗

— James Payn

#because #benefit #cherished #example #human

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling