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Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#ally #clear #clear message #close #close friend

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#easy #family #give #home #newborn

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#balance #community #country #developed #elements

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#around #aside #big #colleges #gas

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#annual #appropriation #broadcasting #corporation #directly

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#realize #understand #virtue #you

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#burdensome #community #feels #flood #insurance

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21. ↗

— Monica Keena

#always #bars #believes #carded #get

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#intelligently #respond #treatment #unintelligent

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#been #developing #diplomatic #enrichment #european