#accounts

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#books #court #early #high #high quality

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#bad #father #golfer #good #good father

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country? ↗

— Marco Rubio

#american #another #arrive #boatload #country

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#american #american indians #asia #certain #collected

The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent. ↗

— Gary Miller

#crude #crude oil #demand #depends #driven

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements. ↗

— Bill Frist

#enable #future #harness #marketplace #personal

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system. ↗

— Dennis Moore

#encourage #establish #help #off #people

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. ↗

— Jean Houston

#accounts #artists #athletes #beings #believe

Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass. ↗

— Evan Davis

#amount #cent #country #does #empty