#lit

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#always #croatia #enough #ensure #growing

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance. ↗

— Steve Israel

#area #availability #businesses #district #firsthand

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#blacks #bring #chairs #change #coming

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#both #both sides #falling #inherent #into

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#american #american people #appoint #believe #business

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security. ↗

— Igor Ivanov

#automatic #believes #carries #council #does

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#becomes #exceeds #how #magical #something

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ↗

— David Ives

#because #challenge #comedy #english #form

All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now. ↗

— Alija Izetbegovic

#anymore #anything #certain #die #difficult

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#average #ball #batting #catch #cumulative