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If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. ↗

— Tom Allen

#aisle #almost #always #anything #apart

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . ↗

— Woody Allen

#done #down #easily #few #few things

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side. ↗

— Luther Allison

#get #just #lifetime #side #south

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#head #i #i write #inside #left

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#gods #government #house #in fact #men

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#back #before #current #evidence #facts

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#conservatives #hear #lower #lowered #more

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#just #like #predecessors #presidents #their

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#came #character #choice #first #nation

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#canada #here #inside #outside #walls