#ex

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#control #coverage #exactly #health #health care

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#burden #children #depend #exhaustive #grandchildren

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#ago #because #broke #could #did

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#books #literature #experience

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#expectation #going #increase #invaded #iraq

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#art #excuse #experiences #live #most

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ↗

— Jules Verne

#between #covered #curtain #earth #extended

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#better #better place #change #could #everybody

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! ↗

— Kate Chopin

#chaotic #disturbing #emerge #especially #ever

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#been #child #company #experience #i