#nat

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #dues #long #manner #means

To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#badly #both #course #credit #denying

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#element #exist #fact #get #i

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#artistry #back #bringing #camera #definitely

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comes #comics #easy #election #eroded

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#destination #hope #just #strategy

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#award #chief #chief executive #corporation #executive

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#alternative #aware #i #i think #liberalism

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #every #himself #indignation #into