#over

I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago. ↗

— John Foster

#ago #discover #films #five #i

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#authentic #blunt #brash #christie #governor

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #big #big leagues #bill #bill clinton

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#alaska #ballot #cast #conceivably #could

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#among #choices #costs #even #government

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#among #been #biggest #bill #care

I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#church #columbia #covered #creek #down

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#controversies #fair #forged #history #involving

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#anyone #becomes #bureaucracy #care #expensive