#ric

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#american people #condition #fiscal #nation #our

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#arguably #clearly #david #first #fiscal

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#awful #brutal #certain #certain time #definite

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#become #being #bricklayer #hadn #i

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#been #getting #i #long #long time

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#america #army #been #big #chunk

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#america #came #i #i came #ourselves

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#discipline #every #freezing #fun #hard

The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind. ↗

— Barry Diller

#american #american public #every #every night #give

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#had #her #knee #left #mother-in-law