#epa

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing. ↗

— Karl Rove

#be prepared #case #colleagues #consider #find

My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun to notice her less and less often, like her colors were fading and blending in with walls. She was shrinking. Or maybe her sphere of influence in the family was shrinking. My dad glanced at her, too, and then wrote something on a napkin. He slid it across the counter to me—Don’t worry. Come home in one piece. Have fun and act like a sixteen-year-old for a change. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#family #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #love

My parents separated when I was younger. ↗

— Tina Turner

#parents #separated #younger

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#big #big family #family #hope #many

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#home #just #just do it #preparing #real

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#lose #prepare #speech #thought #would

In fair weather prepare for foul. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#fair #foul #prepare #weather

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#amendment #ban #coverage #defense #department

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#inspired #make #man #preparation #speech