#tie

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#asked #between #campaign #candidates #choice

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#communities #like #neighbors #start #strangers

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ↗

— Craig Raine

#arrive #diseases #great #impatient #irresistible

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#ideals #myself #neither #nor #personally

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#beauties #eating #favorite #friends #great

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#agree #america #american #answer #basic

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#city #communities #francisco #lags #open

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#boy #diverting #finding #great #i

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know? ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#everyone #fun #go #going #have fun

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#battle #be patient #blessed #brethren #continue