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There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#detail #exposed #families #gulf #heartbreak

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#alone #also #american #away #being

We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves. ↗

— Tim Conway

#broad #burned #commercial #fun #ground

Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe. ↗

— John Conyers

#american #american lives #around #blamed #budgetary

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy. ↗

— John Conyers

#america #care #citizens #competitive #contributes

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America. ↗

— John Conyers

#america #care #congress #health #health care

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#almost #am #america #appreciation #because

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#been #life #mere #more #our

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks. ↗

— Scott Cook

#consumers #created #easy #funds #individual

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking. ↗

— Scott Cook

#business #company #consumer #could #idea