#members

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#congress #contracts #donors #members #must

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members. ↗

— Friedrich List

#general #general welfare #his #individual #injure

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. ↗

— John Madden

#being #champion #else #only #our

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.' ↗

— John McCain

#adhere #bipartisan #concessions #did #done

If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely. ↗

— Vano Merabishvili

#expressing #freely #impede #intervene #lives

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#against #being #being ignored #congress #does

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#choice #commonwealth #go #i #lose

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#given #irish #jobs #majority #members

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them. ↗

— Barack Obama

#am #best #both #code #could

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries. ↗

— Barack Obama

#family #i #lived #members #muslim