#mo

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#bring #committee #common #common sense #diplomatic

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#best #confirmation #first #get #gift

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you. ↗

— Donna Brazile

#defining #front #money #opponent #out

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#bit #comforting #comic #cynical #emotion

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#backwards #beat #books #built #emotionally

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#despite #moral #simply #tell #world

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#nothing #serious #then

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#comic #comic strips #end #end result #established

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together. ↗

— John Breaux

#done #get #going #independent #obvious

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#advance #altering #asset #case #forward