#default

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no. ↗

— John Sununu

#answer #any #basic #chance #circumstance

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#almost #books #default #discipline #especially

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#cautiously #default #failed #failing #impossible

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation. ↗

— Jon Voight

#become #becoming #causes #default #freedoms

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

#certain #create #default #find #i

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default. ↗

— Joy Page

#choose #claiming #default #life #manifesting

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. ↗

— Ted Rall

#because #better #cartoonist #cartoonists #default

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#default #fact #government #inside #journalists

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#criticize #default #ignore #just #like

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#default #force #liberty #never #recovered