"You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart."

-- Herbert H. Lehman

#Running Quotes #Heart Quotes #Character Quotes

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
“I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.”
“This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.”
“One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.”
“What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window When I can see what I couldnâ€™t see before, through the glass of my most battered dream, I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did, it scattered a thousand seeds. So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, donâ€™t try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better”
“People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live”
“Who cares about everyone? What about me?”
“Part of the potential of things is how they break”

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