#prom

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#life #promoted #public #public sector #sector

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong. ↗

— Lord Edward Cecil

#agreement #between #both #compromise #men

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#fact #greater #harmony #hope #matter

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise. ↗

— George McGovern

#american #because #believe #deeply #diminishing

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. ↗

— James McGreevey

#came #climbed #compromises #easy #electoral

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#come #cutting #dallas #date #day

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#been #bid #birth #country #death

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. ↗

— Golda Meir

#either #question #to be or not to be #you

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died. ↗

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

#always #died #his #i #live

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#nice #paradise #promise #will #you