#stance

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#around #critical #describe #distance #experience

It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people. ↗

— John Sununu

#best #choices #choose #give #good

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no. ↗

— John Sununu

#answer #any #basic #chance #circumstance

I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests. ↗

— John Sununu

#assistance #balance #believe #cases #debated

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#anything #behind #going #i #influenced

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#distance #i #i wish #more #myself

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#audiences #certainly #cruise #elements #film

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#circumstance #circumstances #everyone #home #ignorance

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#resistance #art

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain. ↗

— Lonnie Earl Johnson

#because #circumstances #ease #feeling #i