#setting

When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#chicago #companies #competition #francisco #frequencies

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#delay #efficiency #employees #governments #ignore

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#itself #passion #people #right #setting

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#cannot #chaos #compulsion #ethical #invent

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#air pollution #approximately #emission #enforcing #go

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#bad #bad example #chosen #example #i

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#growing #old #older #perceived #upsetting

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#better #difficult #easy #governing #government

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. ↗

— Washington Irving

#continually #ears #ever #fat #heading

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#cooper #find #jail #know #lot