#we cannot

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again. ↗

— Barack Obama

#again #agreed #because #billionaire #cannot

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. ↗

— Barack Obama

#cannot #collaborative #cooperation #degree #effective

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#american people #asylum #blinders #cannot #does

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#change #escape #gain #lose #mark

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#afraid #against #being #being afraid #cannot

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#being #belongs #business #cannot #certainly

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#consequences #dodge #dodging #easy #our

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#art #cannot #great #great art #interested

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. ↗

— George Sand

#cannot #fire #life #our #out

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#bodies #cannot #coercion #emerge #enlightened