#sid

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#civil rights #comes #conflict #counted #decades

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#backstage #brutalized #bullies #child #come

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#negative #portray #side #some #western

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America. ↗

— Chris Christie

#already #america #american #american dream #demonize

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed. ↗

— Chris Christie

#benefit #come #consider #desk #guarantee

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#civil #civil society #elected #even #ever

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#before #care #church #entrusted #female

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned. ↗

— Fred Upton

#care #coverage #different #envisioned #first

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#announcing #between #british #days #feeling

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#inside #mystery #riddle #russia #wrapped