#side

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#father #governor #him #i #knew

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#becoming #first #first lady #i #i see

I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#cell research #embryonic #embryonic stem cell #embryonic stem cell research #federal

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#come #consider #created #criticism #excitement

I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#beautiful #beautiful thing #consider #horrible #i

I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#bid #box #california #coast #i

President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#balloons #big #blow #could #countries

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#early #ever #fiction #fiction writers #first

I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#hawaii #i #lot #outside #playing

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. ↗

— Colin Powell

#about #argued #congress #court #deal