#lit

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#done #level #most #politics #retail

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#excusing #fact #hurricane #i #kind

Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers ... Countries that aren't sure that borrowing is worth the rist are told how important it is to establis a credit rating: borrow even if you really don't need the money. ↗

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

#politics #money

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time. ↗

— Julia Child

#bit #everything #food #good #good time

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there. ↗

— Connie Chung

#bald #equality #fat #i #i think

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping. ↗

— Kate Fox

#between #difference #found #little #little difference

They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets. ↗

— Ward Churchill

#legitimate #little #people #referred #targeting

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#afterwards #explain #foretell #going #happen

The whales, you see, eat up the little fish. ↗

— Thomas Churchyard

#fish #little #see #up #whales

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. ↗

— Alan Clark

#blood #circling #friends #politics #sharks