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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#always #back #been #give #god

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done. ↗

— Julian Castro

#before #care #democrats #done #expand

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american #any #automatically #definition #disqualified

This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#america #both #critical #economies #energy

We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#attack #attacks #authorities #because #catastrophic

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#expenditure #found #gratification #lavish #mere

I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more. ↗

— Jason Chaffetz

#america #biggest #cutting #debt #depth

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american empire #announced #become #commerce #debtor

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#another #beyond #could #equal #extinction

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. ↗

— John Updike

#barefoot #being #going #mere #naked