#taking

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#citizens #necessary #our #preparing #ready

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff! ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#asked #asking #borrowed #break #city

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#fully #gone #happen #i #know

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. ↗

— David Hackworth

#banging #danger #door #granted #human

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#baby #care #corner #crossing #ends

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#english #find #first #foremost #i

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops. ↗

— David Hackworth

#bay #beltway #care #fervor #game

The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally. ↗

— William Hague

#economy #edge #globally #leading #low

One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer. ↗

— R.J. Gonzales

#living-life-to-the-fullest #taking-things-slwo #life

The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#because #better #carry #countless #deeply