#rat

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#democratic #democratic party #eye #eye level #i

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#bench #bring #except #feel #follow

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#care #company #decisions #health #health care

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#after #always #defense #democrats #idea

Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#democratic #each #far #further #just

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#conservative #democrat #did #everything #had

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#arrangement #arriving #being #certain #decisions

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#assumed #class #collective #different #different people

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity. ↗

— James Schuyler

#change #disparate #elements #entity #form