#rot

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#day #down #had #head #i

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution. ↗

— Chris Christie

#center #come #corner #cost #crisis

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid. ↗

— Fred Upton

#entitlement #even #focused #future #heavily

My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters. ↗

— Scott Walker

#kids #protesters #targeted #were

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#agree #american #american soldiers #brave #bravery

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#boxer #brothers #chief #father #football

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#arsenal #believe #government #i #i believe

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#bill clinton #brother-in-law #clinton #coming #elected

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves. ↗