#su

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#birth #defects #enact #i #legislation

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#basis #components #currently #defense #department

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#casualties #cause #container #could #day

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#businesses #does #drive #economy #give

I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man. ↗

— Beth Orton

#always #bad #because #been #believe

Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring. ↗

— Beth Orton

#expression #first #hearing #i #idea

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ↗

— George Orwell

#catch #consumes #creature #does #eggs

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ↗

— George Orwell

#depth #duty #first #intelligent #men

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. ↗

— George Orwell

#folly #hatred #issues #itself #keeping

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going