#sons

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#around #daughters #fighting #freedoms #liberty

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#country #decide #define #elections #endless

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#halls #i #learnt #lecture #lessons

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#artisan #draw #europe #experience #government

People will always make comparisons. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#comparisons #make #people #will

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#never #president #reasons #shoot

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#actually #against #attack #capacity #difficult

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#because #become #creativity #everything #find

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#biggest #house #i #learned #lessons

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#bad #based #because #disagree #good