#rates

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#class #cuts #democrats #keeping #levels

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! ↗

— Thomas Mann

#brilliance #carefully #concentrates #considered #creature

I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#glad #i #i am #me #sons

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#expression #here #human #illusion #intellectualism

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#celebrates #common #common ground #diversity #ground

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste. ↗

— Elton John

#dying #going #hiv #infection #people

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#fortnight #hanged #his #knows #man

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency. ↗

— Paul Rudd

#because #frequency #his #me #nelson

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#because #connect #english #everything #faster

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#must #operates #people #reform #restore