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government people common-sense
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience. Carol Moseley Braun
government grease corruption
No government functions without the grease of corruption. Carlos Fuentes
government broken branches
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. Carl Bernstein
government safety levels
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
government sake
We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability, Ahmad Chalabi
government hurt people storm work
We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul. Laura Bush
government states united
What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability. Stephen Kinzer
government
We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.
government people together
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. Aaron Sorkin
years focus proud
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty. Carre Otis
years beliefs-and-values belief
Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before. Carol P. Christ
years another-year
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. Carol Shields
years ideas six
You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years. C. S. Lewis
years littles said
Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".
years practice people
I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
years house able
Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.
years ideas important
I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working. Agnes Varda
years watches needs
I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.
numbers worry firsts
My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time. Carlos Castaneda
numbers jewels scales
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. Carl Friedrich Gauss
numbers important problem
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
numbers endurance vices
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. Charles Caleb Colton
numbers sides smallest
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. Charles Simmons
numbers people wish
There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business. Brent Spiner
numbers speak
We know we don't get a lot of attention. We just feel we're a numbers team. We let our numbers speak for us.
numbers bills constitution
I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated. Dianne Feinstein
numbers government cells
It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.