#over

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

#democracy #form #government #ideal #tempered

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#class #country #discover #high #high school

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#close #edge #going #i #i can

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#deal #filmed #had #him #i

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way. ↗

— Tom Waits

#almost #any #constant #constant state #create

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes. ↗

— Harold Washington

#overconfident #still #votes

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life. ↗

— George Wald

#government #life #only #point #safeguard

I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center. ↗

— Greg Walden

#active role #am #bar #cascade #center

Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured. ↗

— Greg Walden

#businesses #coverage #every #huge #increases

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#end #i #just #me #occur