#refused

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen. ↗

— Kevin McCarthy

#care #cried #democratic #failed #government

When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When Sheriff Joe refused to balk, they filed suit against him with a frivolous civil rights claim. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#arizona #balk #civil #civil rights #claim

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#army #before #first #first of all #i

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#been #chance #had #i #me

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. ↗

— Billy Carter

#brother #conform #i #image #lot

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate. ↗

— David Talbot

#appropriate #because #break #broken #even

Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#america #choice #class #colleagues #come

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#adopted #aunt #family #get #great

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#differed #good #interests #matched #mold

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#another #because #community #cost #council