#very

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out. ↗

— Barney Frank

#carried #formulated #going #granted #heavily

Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice. ↗

— Barney Frank

#give #good #good advice #i #notion

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration. ↗

— Barney Frank

#april #both #bush #bush administration #created

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere! ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#editors #everywhere #great #know #leaves

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#beach #black #black hole #bones #book

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#because #business #come #crumble #decades

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#american #connections #conservatism #continued #depends

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#average people #bailouts #billionaires #crisis #during

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.' ↗

— Thomas Frank

#being #city #claim #days #either