#promise

Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#breaking #broken #bush #campaign #carbon

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#america #believe #child #education #equal

The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men. ↗

— Nguyen Van Thieu

#fight #freedom #help #keep #lost

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#around #begged #beyond #choosing #could

Better a broken promise than none at all. ↗

— Mark Twain

#broken #none #promise #than

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. ↗

— Charles Wesley

#cries #done #faith #god #impossibilities

I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want. ↗

— Allen West

#come #compromise #democrats #force #heard

You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#am #bully #day #education #every

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#america #american #american life #been #consisted

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#believe #better #chance #compromised #dangerously