#mis

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#avoid #bipartisanship #causes #compromises #cooperate

There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11. ↗

— Bob Graham

#believe #disguise #i #i believe #issues

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. ↗

— James Buchan

#crown #drama #earned #frets #his

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗

— James Buchan

#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#care #extreme #extreme poverty #health #health care

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ask #bear #derives #expectation #fact

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#hear #industry #just #last #missing

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#court #court cases #felony #i #juries

There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#katie #linda #manson #mission #murder