#weaken

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#environmental #excuse #extreme #gifts #give

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#strengthen #strong #weak #weakening #you

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. ↗

— George Mason

#disgraceful #itself #mankind #slaves #states

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#child #custody #cut #deal #divorce

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#begins #beyond #brightest #deteriorate #flame

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. ↗

— Barney Frank

#delay #ethics #mr #process #republicans

A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#commit #common #decisions #disregarding #engage

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#any #attack #been #conduct #down

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#distance #governed #governments #their #weakening