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I think it encompasses a value that the legislature has given to the transparency of government operations, to help people understand what their government is doing and why.


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LAWRENCE WELK If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett...
VICKI LAWRENCE There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who vote...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret T...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign hi...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u...
MARK LAWRENCE It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefie...
MARK LAWRENCE I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we se...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 I have quitted all forms of devotion and set p...
BROTHER LAWRENCE He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 You will tell me...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Use yourself then by deg...
BROTHER LAWRENCE He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am u...
BROTHER LAWRENCE There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk wit...
BROTHER LAWRENCE [He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictio...
BROTHER LAWRENCE