#so

When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff. ↗

— Joan Blades

#connection #deliver #experience #go #his way

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#best #died #ever #i #i think

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#copying #cuban #dancing #distinctive #emphasis

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#album #came #doing #first #here

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#began #i #neighborhood #sing #sort

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#america #american #come #first #happenings

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#also #always #been #liberty #me

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#american society #composed #each #favours #fundamentally

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#computer #economic #economic system #european #first

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#collective #demographic #economic #economic growth #futures