"But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality."

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Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

Alexi Giannoulias

#Jobs Quotes #Recovery Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.”
“Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.”
“Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.”
“Remember that if you donâ€™t prioritize your life someone else will.”
“I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.”
“Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears”

Source : Pauline Oliveros (1974). “Sonic meditations”

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