#nu

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#economy #ensure #families #job #meeting

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#avenue #buyers #calling #door #entailed

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#cable #companies #computer #designers #enormous

Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#clear #continue #evidenced #fact #far

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#first #item #million #off #revenue

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#failure #get #go #got #had

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#any #find #i #i think #lot

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#cooper #did #explorers #few #fiction

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#burden #continue #does #dollars #economy

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow. ↗

— Michael Dorn

#grow #him #i #i love #idea