#nate

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#access #capacity #confining #democratic #democratic system

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#i #i think #inordinately #serious #think

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. ↗

— Martha Beck

#innate #intact #loneliness #proof #search

It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#doing #great #honestly #passionately #people

I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams. ↗

— Ed Belfour

#fortunate #great #i #lot #real

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#dinosaurs #either #every #fascinated #i

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#books #i #i write #idea #imagination

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#color #designate #developing #french #french people

I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#get #i #little #nominated #surprised