Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.
You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.
The curious fascination in this job [U. S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.
The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.
When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax. '. . . The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.
Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.
The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.
The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't it, like, two in the morning back there?" "It's called jet lag," Ian informed him. "I'm still on London time. I don't suppose you savages have any tea in this mausoleum. " "There's a diet Snapple in the fridge. " Ian shuddered. "I thought not.
Nothing but courage can guide life.