#mer

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind. ↗

— George W. Bush

#american people #believe #cause #change #criticize

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America. ↗

— Laura Bush

#critical #i #i think #lot #media

We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#america #base #best #buy #critical

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#badly #been #by the time #consumer #corn

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian #asian american #below #black #female

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bears #found #fruits #i #justice

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#am #american #american people #bet #betting

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#ago #away #cape #died #done

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. ↗

— John Lindsay

#believe #business #cannot #cope #country

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character. ↗

— Laura Linney

#acting #american #appropriate #be careful #because