#gis

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#enforced #legislation #may #rest #system

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#important #laws #legislators #live #more

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#after #among #anguish #birth #copy

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. ↗

— Allen Tate

#come #does #geneticists #happen #how

Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#america #choice #class #colleagues #come

I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset. ↗

— Sandy Adams

#believe #effective #greatest #greatest asset #i

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#argument #comes #go #hand #i

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable. ↗

— Laura Bush

#around #elections #including #just #look

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#affords #any #appointed #as far as #being

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#curtailment #down #during #era #go