#mel

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#homeland #just #little #mission #off

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#begin #days #fish #guests #like

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#conditions #director #end #end result #extremely

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#allocated #broken #bush #bush administration #change

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#extremely #hard #know #self #steel

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#character #extremely #high #i #i think

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#any #bread #crust #driver #get

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself. ↗

— Anna Freud

#like #namely #oneself #only #right

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me. ↗

— David Friedman

#came #deeply #difficult #extremely #i