"Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear."

-- Lisa Murkowski

#Commitment Quotes #Essence Quotes #Good Man Quotes

“It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.”
“Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It's not a left-right division.”

Source : "Q&A: Deborah Meier". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.
“People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.”
“I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.”
“I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what Iâ€™m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say â€˜ok, here I am, Iâ€™m going to experience the pain,â€™ you donâ€™t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.”
“People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.”
“Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In Turkey we are losing those bridges, and everyone is trying to destroy spaces for the opposite side. When we look at this, Istanbul is like different courtyards divided by big, thick walls.”
“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”

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