#pen

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#commissioners #convictions #governments #happened #marriage

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#been #economy #engineering #fabric #government

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#be kind #bullying #comedy #else #example

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#make #open #people #powerless #theater

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions? ↗

— Don DeLillo

#beginning #dimensions #finishes #happen #i

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#independent #influence #outside #person #society

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#find #go #helpless #novelist #out

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#believed #could #debt #government #government spending

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#debt limit #democrats #i #i can #increase

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#broad #came #concerned #confused #constitutional