"In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation."

-- Bill Vaughan

#President Quotes #Momentum Quotes #Republican Quotes

“I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught”
“I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.”
“What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.”
“Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections”
“Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.”
“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
“Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.”
“The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.”

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