#pa

Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#benefits #compact #deal #depend #fix

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#before #ever #find #go #government

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#great #great power #much #necessarily #power

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#hard #i #just #life #move

It was that chemistry. And was the fact that he was president part of that chemistry? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. But it was - I was there because there was chemistry. I wasn't there because, oh, this is the president. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#chemistry #fact #i #know #maybe

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#because #been #during #gone #government

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#because #cannot #give #god #happiness

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#christian #eating #go #higher #his

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#day #each #endless #every #fact