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Ron Wyden Quotes

It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.

Ron Wyden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 3, 1949

Topics

Law Strong Enough Insurance Build

I think the medium of television is so great for women, especially right now, because I feel like with 'Broad City' and Amy Schumer and 'Girls', the creators are the stars, so their voice is totally pure.

Jessica St. Clair

Stars Women Great City Voice Think

I do want to write again. I hope to. But it's also important for me to realize, as I get older, that I don't have to be doing everything all at once.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Hope Me Doing Important Want Write

My character on 'Voyager,' because of the way he was presented, I could go either way. I could be a real buffoon, a windbag, be self-involved, and we could get a lot of comic mileage from him. However, the audience accepted me with gravity when I was in a dire situation, so they would follow me in comic or dramatic stories.

Robert Picardo

Character Me Situation Go Way Real

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

Steven Johnson

Live Innovation Ideas You Look

At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.

Lucy Powell

Change Order Unpopular Behaviour

Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.

Donella Meadows

Family Education Health World Key

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Dean Martin

Good Morning Day People Wake Up Up

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

Christian Bale

Myself Challenge Day Disappointment

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Arnold Bennett

Culture Man Old Man Wonder Person

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Woodrow Wilson

Man Growing Office Him See Watch

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

Sharon Salzberg

Good Practice You Meditation Find

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Serj Tankian

Live Alive Pretending Us Make