#vices

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. ↗

— Oliver North

#america #been #ever #haven #i

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. ↗

— Edward Norton

#contemporary #devices #dramatic #feel #i

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#being #change #companies #demanded #done

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#because #crime #criminal #criminal law #denounce

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#cliches #devices #feel #i #like

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#cannot #container #department #detection #devices

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#attempting #citizenship #doing #downloaded #had

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#affordable #aid program #care #centers #community

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#capable #far #hostile #important #religion