#pa

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bush tax cuts #cuts #democratic #democrats #half

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#bush #commitment #compassion #done #feeling

For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#also #ask #awkward #decided #drives

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#banking #believe #i #like #makes

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.' ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#away #drift #enough #far #gradually

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean? ↗

— Joe Cocker

#america #audience #been #came #fans

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#pastime #priesthood

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#children #cut #his #knot #life

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#aware #come #dialogue #every #hold

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#content #everybody #nobody #paris #spectator