"For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded."

-- Anthony Weiner

#Cutting Quotes #Years Quotes #Cities Quotes

“As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers”
“We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.”
“For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.”
“Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!”
“That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.”
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
“I sing because I'm happy.”

Source : "Song: 'I Sing Because I'm Happy'". 1993.
“I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.20, New York Review of Books

You may also like:

Bill de Blasio
Mayor of New York City
Bill Maher
Comedian
Eliot Spitzer
Former Governor of New York
Hillary Clinton
Former United States Secretary of State
Joe Biden
Vice President of the United States
Larry Craig
Former U.S. Senator
Monica Lewinsky
Television Actor
William J. Clinton
42nd U.S. President
Huma Abedin
Political figure