#national

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#coming-of-age #family #home #identity #invisibility

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#another #businesses #cargo #competing #going

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution. ↗

— Mike DeWine

#binds #constitution #conversation #course #document

For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#beginning #celebrated #commend #community #contributions

The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match. ↗

— Dixie Dean

#england #full #german #had #i

Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#borders #congress #done #federal #federal government

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#am #believe #better #better off #denominational

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials to make them public. They should be public all the time, open to review by adversarial courts, and subject to change by an accountable legislature guided by an informed public. If Americans are not able to learn how their government is interpreting and executing the law then we have effectively eliminated the most important bulwark of our democracy. That’s why, even at the height of the Cold War, when the argument for absolute secrecy was at its zenith, Congress chose to make US surveillance laws public. Without public laws, and public court rulings interpreting those laws, it is impossible to have informed public debate. And when the American people are in the dark, they can’t make fully informed decisions about who should represent them, or protest policies that they disagree with. These are fundamentals. It’s Civics 101. And secret law violates those basic principles. It has no place in America. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#law #national-security #secrets #surveillance #change

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#all-time #budget #budgets #defense #federal

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide. ↗

— Ira Glasser

#course #decide #defend #i #know