#nation

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served. ↗

— Diane Watson

#activities #constituency #deeds #duty #government

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body. ↗

— Stan Getz

#body #challenge #especially #far #goes

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#african #against #attention #basic #discrimination

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#council #enough #failure #i #maybe

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#best #difficulty #doubt #europe #four

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#form #go #league #management #national

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absurd #admirable #agreed #barack #barack obama

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#balance #change #class #contributing #determination

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#animal world #characterised #consequent #departments #differentiation

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#difficult #imagination #inspire #interesting #just