"Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor."

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Source : "Playing chicken with U.S. economy". www.politico.com. March 17, 2011.

Peter Welch

#Party Quotes #Majority Quotes #Minorities Quotes

“Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.”
“In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the note you play, it's about the note you play next.”
“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
“People sometimes forget how important #â€Ž Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.”
“Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.”
“What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?”

Source : "Artful Survivor". Interview with Deborah Salomon, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 1989.
“Luckily, though, there are still a few guys around who will look you straight in the eye and say, eloquently and to the point, â€˜Itâ€™s been too ***** hot for too long and the river has gone off.â€™”

Source : John Gierach (2010). “Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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