#pen

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#anything #ask #creating #each #equity

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#america #american #come #first #happenings

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened. ↗

— Ted Demme

#accomplish #another #being #being honest #bend

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#children #commitment #community #dependent #eating

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#ask #care #during #expensive #fact

Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#common #duty #element #energy #heavy

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory). ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#consciousness #content #course #effects #hence

Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#anything #happen #ice #influence #under

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#countries #dependent #energy #foreign #foreign countries

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#children #embracing #happened #help #help people