#gains

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated. ↗

— Drew Carey

#always #certainly #good #government #guidelines

In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#additional #again #against #amendment #calling

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#allies #analysis #capabilities #collection #defense

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other. ↗

— Piers Corbyn

#been #carbon #carbon dioxide #dioxide #each

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#been #behind #driving #driving force #europe

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. ↗

— Annie Besant

#austere #beneficent #celestial #class #crowds

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#aggressive #important #investigative #mob #powerful

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#against #elicit #expectations #held #make

Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#community #doing #entire #going #good

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me! ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#against #am #anyone #books #composing