#nin

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#clock #construe #defeating #gone #i

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#behaviour #breakdown #case #classic #containing

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#because #benefits #children #cloth #cut

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#ninety-five #percent #white

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#challenge #i #in the beginning #me #months

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training. ↗

— Kate Smith

#continually #done #embarrassed #example #i

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me. ↗