#tim

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. ↗

— Richard Russo

#books #even #except #exist #i

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#by the time #children #like #mine #nearing

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#debt #did #get #just #money

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#back #belief #better #better off #brett

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#corporate #patronage #political #stimulus #their

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#ahead #best #country #demand #economy

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? ↗

— Paul Ryan

#administration #ago #almost #assumed #barack

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#basis #cast #disappointing #episode #going

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times. ↗

— Morley Safer

#enough #garlic #never #new #new york

If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts. ↗

— Marat Safin

#bed #dreaming #ended #go #had