#lion

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#belt #black #eleven #end #hands

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created. ↗

— Mark Foley

#billion #budget #congressional #costs #created

Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year. ↗

— Mark Foley

#reached #spending #travel #trillion #year

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#bay #been #days #detroit #football

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#church #depository #hospital #ideas #men

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack #barack obama #biggest #challenge #does

When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#flyer #frequent #get #i #i think

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#average people #bailouts #billionaires #crisis #during

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#chinese #civil #civil government #empire #even

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#artist #bad #be nice #deal #i