#ric

I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#appearance #celebrates #community #creates #european

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun. ↗

— Edie Falco

#coming home #easier #family #fun #home

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#cut #giving #instead #people #pockets

Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it. ↗

— Eva Braun

#after #am #because #blanks #both

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority. ↗

— John Breaux

#american people #claim #could #everybody #first

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#comic #comic strips #end #end result #established

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#advance #altering #asset #case #forward

Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my face over a table at La Tomate in Washington not two years ago—and lands on a bystander in the street below. Now, make the burning building be Europe, and the luckless man underneath be the Palestinian Arabs. Is this a historical injustice? Has the man below been made a victim, with infinite cause of complaint and indefinite justification for violent retaliation? My own reply would be a provisional 'no,' but only on these conditions. The man leaping from the burning building must still make such restitution as he can to the man who broke his fall, and must not pretend that he never even landed on him. And he must base his case on the singularity and uniqueness of the original leap. It can't, in other words, be 'leap, leap, leap' for four generations and more. The people underneath cannot be expected to tolerate leaping on this scale and of this duration, if you catch my drift. In Palestine, tread softly, for you tread on their dreams. And do not tell the Palestinians that they were never fallen upon and bruised in the first place. Do not shame yourself with the cheap lie that they were told by their leaders to run away. Also, stop saying that nobody knew how to cultivate oranges in Jaffa until the Jews showed them how. 'Making the desert bloom'—one of Yvonne's stock phrases—makes desert dwellers out of people who were the agricultural superiors of the Crusaders. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#analogies #arabs #colonialism #crusades #europe

It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. ↗

— Arthur Bremer

#either #george #nixon #personal #pistol

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#american people #bed #day #enough #go