#grant

We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities. ↗

— David E. Price

#bills #breaks #comes #communities #country

In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#five #grown #hit #immigrant #increase

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security. ↗

— Mike Ross

#departments #fema #fire #flexibility #grant

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#granted #here #i #i feel #i feel like

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#ability #achieve #advice #best #cannot

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not. ↗

— Mandy Moore

#better #else #everyone #fame #granted

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#buds #fragrant #harvest #honey #rose

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#granted #growing #growing up #many #now

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#developed world #developing #developing world #few #granted

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair