#pera

While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#doing #first #foreign #give #greatest

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods. ↗

— David Ricardo

#both #commodity #comparative #comparing #consideration

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#been #disney #division #element #i

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#afghanistan #al #base #bring #democracy

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else. ↗

— Doris Roberts

#choice #dies #down #else #food

The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#first #inseparable #insuperable #second #singular

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#air #battle #compromise #contestants #determine

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#begins #certain #certain point #competition #cooperation

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#classical training #consider #had #i #myself

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#chaos #come #council #desperate #ever