#rei

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#affairs #foreign #foreign affairs #gets #had

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#foreign #gifts #humor #perish #tongue

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. ↗

— William Wycherley

#friends #judgment #like #many #may

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#because #care #government #government programs #health

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#change #clearly #doctors #efficiency #healthy

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#been #fifty #foreign #foreign policy #get

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#complex #consequences #fact #foreign #foreign policy

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#cannot #differences #friends #friendship #reinforce

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#during #few #foreign #foreign policy #german

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#alone #also #away #country #day