#plain

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas. ↗

— Chris Bell

#because #complaint #congressional #corruption #delay

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#explaining #fear #hope #ignorance #nature

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#complained #deserve #entertaining #heroism #i

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ↗

— John Breaux

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#complain #going #i #kind #like

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#first #make #shortness #their #those

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves. ↗

— James Buchan

#because #explain #fellows #fine #lot

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#sublimest #things #truth #world

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is. ↗

— Vince Cable

#challenge #class #explain #government #how

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#explain #giving #label #phenomenon