#mill

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#campaigns #congressional #dollars #government #may

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #black #country #ever #founded

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires. ↗

— Katherine Fullerton Gerould

#created #ever #expressly #fashion #fat

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#creation #economic #economic prosperity #half #job

As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#both #british #british columbia #canada #columbia

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#alive #another #city #creation #death

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#america #came #crossed #during #elapsed

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. ↗

— Norman Lear

#avenue #begins #buying #desks #discussing

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#career #four #had #huge #i

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#congress #done #empowering #i #marching