#over

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#i #i think #independence #local #local government

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#god #i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #poverty #life

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover. ↗

— Ben Harper

#blind #deepest #discover #heritage #musical

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it. ↗

— Ben Harper

#artists #crush #get #great #i

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#because #canada #confederation #culture #decades

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#approach #backyard #cuts #defence #dispute

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#because #brought #down #government #house

Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#canada #ends #frankly #government #governments

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#first #first of all #forget #government #i

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#minority #other #parliament #people #want