#ted

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#because #beliefs #compromises #did #different

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#elected #focus #getting #i #i think

You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#about #beat #bills #dead #debt

Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#any #council #countries #cuba #human

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#budgets #council #currently #fiscal #fiscal year

Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#agricultural #america #area #communities #congress

Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#because #even #his #interested #less

One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#commercials #electronic #electronic media #hour #i

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#direct #direct result #existing #government #laws

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. ↗

— Robert Matsui

#camps #father #i #internment #months