#with

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents. ↗

— John Sununu

#defining #forced #laws #left #legal

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. ↗

— John Sununu

#behavior #code #companies #corporate #economic

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#essence #generosity #gives #readily #sacrifice

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bracket #called #decade #imagine #into

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#being #brutally #constantly #down #forward

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#anything #family #focus #great #had

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#being #comedy #could #done #goal

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#complex #cultures #easy #mixes #more

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

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#against #argument #best #compelling #criminal