#rot

I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#debate #during #family #freedom #freedom of speech

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#breathtaking #congress #country #embodied #landscapes

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff. ↗

— George Eads

#death #get #how #kind #lady

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something. ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#also #become #before #brothers #expected

Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#neighbors #our #people #policies #protect

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#been #country #devastating #fortunate #history

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#dorothy-swenson #irony #outsider #beauty

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. ↗

— Sally Ride

#case #during #emergency #goes #helps

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped. ↗

— Marty Robbins

#choose #i #just #song #stopped

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. ↗

— William Glasser

#depressed #happened #neurotic #over #over it