#contract

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. ↗

— Barack Obama

#am #america #another #around #believe

My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor. ↗

— Mitch Pileggi

#dad #did #education #eighth #eighth grade

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. ↗

— Colin Powell

#between #called #contract #country #creating

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#citizenship #comes #contract #democratic #most

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#contracts #criticism #flattery #goes #head

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000. ↗

— Don Shula

#first #rookie

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. ↗

— Robert South

#contract #enlarge #faculty #fancy #far

In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#contract #help #need #our #people

I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#contract #deal #ever #figured #get

I don't pitch for contracts. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#i #pitch