#present

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#because #disadvantage #electoral #everyone #freezes

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#gets #good #i #more #negotiate

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#because #been #bills #ceiling #coming

But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded. ↗

— John Kasich

#care #companies #cut #day #end

More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#appointed #because #country #dangers #following

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. ↗

— Leon Kass

#cloning #danger #example #immediate #into

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#being #constantly #could #expectations #fictions

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#funny #horrible #interested #part #present

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#film #imprisoned #kept #marquis #must

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#because #believes #bible #buddha #god