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After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy. ↗

— Howie Carr

#allowed #amazing #away #because #border

I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago - the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy. ↗

— Jay Carney

#america #back #economy #first #first time

So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs. ↗

— Jay Carney

#control #create #economy #ensure #focus

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#about #best #individual #must #start

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds. ↗

— John Zorn

#cloth #drum #drum set #dues #fact

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be. ↗

— Robert Caro

#ballot #ballot box #better #box #choices

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless. ↗

— Robert Caro

#did #endures #feel #gee #i

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell. ↗

— John Zorn

#got #i #in print #keep #label

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for. ↗

— Robert Caro

#done #given #i #i think #more

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#his #however #man #moment #paper