#significant

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#cannot #care #comprehensive #deficit #deficit reduction

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#both #characterizes #evil #exceptional #forced

Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard. ↗

— John Powell

#because #certainly #children #going #hands

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#continue #current #drop #fallen #female

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration. ↗

— Burt Rutan

#discovery #dreams #experience #exploration #fun

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#actor #asinine #aspect #clothes #dating

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#aspect #bush #bush presidency #catastrophe #every

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company. ↗

— Mario Batali

#food #last #less #meal #much

Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#casually #communication #companies #elements #engaged

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it. ↗

— Peter Davison

#audience #between #broadcasting #does #hearing