#out

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accountability #basis #being #being done #done

The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#activist #care #celebrating #deficit #embrace

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. ↗

— James Madison

#ascertained #cannot #carried #education #expense

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. ↗

— James Madison

#example #happy #hope #liberty #miracle

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. ↗

— James Madison

#chimerical #form #government #happiness #idea

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. ↗

— James Madison

#flourishes #government #greater #purity #religion

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie. ↗

— Michael Madsen

#bad #buy #decision #done #few

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#album #charts #classical #could #countries

I don't mind about the boos from the audience. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#audience #boos #i #mind

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#because #chill #churning #hit #i