#rve

For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#national-security #nba #secrets #surveillance #dreams

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. ↗

— Merle Travis

#credit #deserves #miner #more #mother

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ↗

— Russell Hoban

#attack #attacked #being #chance #got

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform. ↗

— Howard Luck Gossage

#else #hunting #license #may #out

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#as far as #denied #facts #failed #far

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ↗

— Sam Snead

#club #death #fork #golf #golf club

I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didn't deserve it. ↗

— Peter Green

#deserve #felt #had #handle #happy

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded? ↗

— George Grosz

#first #first world #first world war #hated #i

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#government #must #neutrality #observe #strong

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#deserves #every #every day #justifies #only