#rote

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#because #been #before #daniel #fbi

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#attitude #bring #china #cold #cold war

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. ↗

— Bob Filner

#change #committed #continue #courage #determination

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#always #catholic #caused #completely #date

It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today. ↗

— Tom Fitton

#court #i #i think #insular #justice

I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#always #anyone #believed #clinton #everything

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#certain #certain degree #degree #exchange #giving

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself. ↗

— John Frusciante

#like #outwit #protect #something #thing

But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#am #automobile #automobile industry #because #costs

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been