#zen

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history. ↗

— Mark Shields

#bush #campaigns #citizens #contributions #election

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level. ↗

— Joel Silver

#arnold #arnold schwarzenegger #been #big #california

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. ↗

— Nate Silver

#i #i think #kind #market #polling

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. ↗

— William E. Simon

#american citizen #approach #aware #citizen #elitist

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better. ↗

— Peter Singer

#behave #better #citizens #could #dark

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos. ↗

— Peter Singer

#argue #book #concern #could #does

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#almost #art #beauty #bourgeois #century

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#different #different person #face #frozen #i

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#citizen #discipline #feel #first #formed

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#authority #citizen #governing #institution #must