#table

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#abuse of power #accountable #cannot #ethics #function

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#child #children #damaged #devastating #either

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#effort #encouraged #human #human race #individuals

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family. ↗

— Patti Smith

#another #any #anybody #because #childhood

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#brain #comfortable #i #knew #make

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#awkward #because #comfortable #felt #friends

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#favorite #gypsies #my own #own #personal

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#also #back #carter #communicate #convey

Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#feel #government #held #impact #just

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#certain degree #degree #fear #fools #great