#reasonable

Obama seems like he tries to talk everyone into what he believes - and that's part of why we elected him, because he's a calm, reasonable guy - but behind that, there has to be some fight. You have to be able to take a few punches and throw a few punches. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#because #behind #believes #calm #elected

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. ↗

— Rand Paul

#first #floor #government #handicapped #him

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#best #carrot #disagree #east #even

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been? ↗

— John Clayton

#any #been #believe #god #matter

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#country #expectation #individual #law #mental

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#antisemitism #beyond #cartoons #country #differences

I always try to be reasonable and effective. ↗

— Ian Smith

#effective #i #i always #reasonable #try

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#bow #concerned #immediately #letters #much

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#me #men #politics #reasonable #reasoned

Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#away #carried #crime #detaining #explanation