#serve

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#ambitious #contract #covering #devious #discovery

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #deserve #every #everything #example

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission. ↗

— James Tobin

#city #commission #haven #i #new

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem. ↗

— John Walters

#country #helping #president #president bush #problem

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens. ↗

— Thomas Vilsack

#citizens #federal #federal government #flexibility #future

To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and local slaughter facilities. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#commercial #customers #facilities #fund #help

Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense. ↗

— Jeanne Kohl-Welles

#breaks #bringing #expense #however #jobs

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#deserved #half #nine #probably #red

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other. ↗

— John Wilkins

#disputes #each #excellent #give #hard

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. ↗

— Barry White

#art form #beautiful #beautiful art #because #better