#rita

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. ↗

— Stephen King

#assume #care #charitable #debts #education

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#american lives #billion #came #caused #claimed

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#brought #charge #england #february #most

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#based #cultural #democratic #governments #human

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#always #else #find #go #here

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#back #day #directors #fix #fun

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#culture #embracing #i #know #puritanical

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed. ↗

— Dora Russell

#began #birth #birth control #britain #clinic

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#heritage #kansas #strong