#out

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#egos #elites #masses #really #state

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#books #bring #currently #did #fairness

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America. ↗

— Vic Snyder

#america #brought #central #crisis #freedom

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#forget #important #nobel #prizes #really

I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#old #out #people #registering #started

I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#anything #arrest #cops #doing #driving

We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#behalf #best #country #craft #depend

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#democracy #document #hours #intimidation #law

I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#check #cycle #e-mail #facebook #feel

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#add #area #becoming #currency #desirability