#measures

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#constitution #constitutional #doctrine #inadequate #last

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. ↗

— George III

#bringing #colonies #country #due #left

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#american #because #group #itself #like

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge. ↗

— Kevin Shelley

#charge #i #insisting #measures #need

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#clear #concrete #defeating #forces #handing

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#affirmative #affirmative action #been #blacks #culture

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#always #fulfilment #held #imperfect #instruments

During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#during #health #i #i see #last

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#efforts #half #half-hearted #i #i am

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. ↗

— George Mason

#appeared #business #common #conviction #disgusted