#ding

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#literature #reading #literature

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#elected #get #good #government #individuals

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#been #economy #engineering #fabric #government

Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#benefits #businesses #days #every #families

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#crude oil #increase #margins #oil #over

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#reading #writing #opinions

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#am #brutal #crimes #death #deciding

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#fairness #family #field #income #issue

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#american #back #beef #best #bse

To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there. ↗

— Hope Davis

#clinton #could #course #fingertips #given