#reconciliation

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#death #effort #filibuster #know #purpose

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#change #congressional #earth #facts #friends

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#changes #deal #expansion #federal #federal government

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#course #evolution #human #human mind #mind

Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#detective #love #mystery #noir #reconciliation

It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before. ↗

— Mary McAleese

#accident #after #aspect #before #come

This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#also #basis #character #democracy #during

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#cooperation #dwells #global #international #international cooperation

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#hole #hope #i #limited #reconciliation

I am against any reconciliation with Israel. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#am #any #i #i am #israel