The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
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That's why t... DAVID IGNATIUS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle betwe... JON STEWART The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances th... NATHAN MYHRVOLD It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of che... CHELLIE PINGREE Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. GRACIE ALLEN This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. GRACIE ALLEN A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn'... FREDDY ADU It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I frowned at the eye in my palm. 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But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ... VAN MORRISON There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science... MICHAEL SHERMER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even t... ULRICH BECK 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and te... JOHN DELANEY She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE We have a bill being written for special interests by special interests and the senator is in the mi... CHARLES PLANCON We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We needed checks and balances in the system. Andy has held his hand up to some mistakes. The directo... FRANCIS BARON Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS A Hazel é diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sab... JOHN GREEN Congress must assert its proper role and seek the truth. A government that fails to honor its own la... CAROLINE FREDRICKSON We're well aware of all the questions surrounding the plan. But we felt there was a system of checks... 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DONNA SUMMER Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. ... DONNA SHALALA She's the epitome of a point guard already. That doesn't happen often (with a sophomore). She was gr... DONNA NICHOLSON So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him fac... DONNA RICE But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired... DONNA SUMMER One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes. DONNA MILLS If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these mos... DONNA REED I have been asking for years for documentation from staff on why the current configuration is a good... DONNA MILLS Hey mister! You got a dime? DONNA SUMMER My life was changed in one breath from God. DONNA SUMMER I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside. DONNA SUMMER If you've never been to one of my concerts, ... I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell. DONNA SUMMER I Will Go With You, DONNA SUMMER Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have... DONNA SUMMER You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribl... DONNA SHALALA Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating... DONNA SHALALA The Vagina Monologues is beautifully written and I'm delighted to be following in the footsteps of m... DONNA HANOVER This is our fourth luncheon, but this is the first time we've done something like this. We sold out ... DONNA ROBERTS Our main fundraiser is the gala. We raised $200,000 during the gala and our hope is to raise $50,000... DONNA ROBERTS Most offenders, you know, re-offend over and over again. DONNA ROBERTS I feel our state failed them. DONNA ROBERTS Being the mother of a victim, I see the emotional scars that's deep inside that will never go away. DONNA ROBERTS I think they should do that. It just gives parents a way of knowing there's somebody dangerous in th... DONNA ROBERTS The people that are still employed are petrified. DONNA ROBERTS