"Itâ€™s not about the budget; itâ€™s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I donâ€™t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesnâ€™t."

-- Paul Krugman

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Care Quotes

“A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.”
“There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.”
“One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.”
“There is no role I cannot play except a midget.”
“I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.”

Source : Sherman Kent, Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.). History Staff (1994). “Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays”
“Airports - they're not my idea of fun at all. Some of the staff are lovely, but you do always get one or two that seem to forget that it's actually costing you a lot of money to be there and be insulted by their surliness. Times have obviously changed and we need to get used to being more strictly vetted, but they could be more pleasant about it. A smile wouldn't go amiss.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set. When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids.”

Source : Anne Frasier (2012). “Hush”, p.21, Theresa Weir
“I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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