#pro

Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#also #democracy #economy #expanding #freedoms

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#because #definitely #drawn #get #happens

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#forgive #him #likely #made #president

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#before #clarinet #ear #greatest #i

AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#beat #because #better #break #career

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#best picture #competent #crafty #dark #films

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#both #community #deficit #his #honors

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#convincing #credible #nation #obama #plan

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#continual #growth #improvement #meaning #progress

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#friends #going #i #off #professionals