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Friday, June 8, 2007
True Citizen Charter Review
Article II, Chapters 3-6 have been posted to the True Citizen Charter Review. Now that you have watched the puppet theatre of the Charter Review discussion item, go to the site, take a few hours, read what is posted and leave your comments.
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"I have this rule: I don¹t think about things where nobody cares what I think." --- Congressman Barney Frank
“There will be people who will hate anything you do. And some people will really love it. But that’s not really different from the people who really hate it.” --- John Malkovich
“Nothing you do particularly matters. But I’m not sure that’s a great excuse for doing it poorly.” --- John Malkovich
Word(s) - Site Consultant (a glorified realtor who we fly in then wine and dine with tax dollars in hopes that they will keep us on their short list for when they have a client.)
Memento mori: A Latin phrase that roughly translates into "Remember you will die," which can be used to cut the boastful down to size or place one's own life into elegant perspective.
Quote - "Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure." --- Tommy Lasorda
Quote - "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." -- Winston Churchill
Quote - "The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others." --- Don Shula, former Miami Dolphins coach
Quote - "People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn¹t it done the other way?" --- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote - “Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.” --- Hubert H. Humphrey
Quote - If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around. --- Bella Abzug
Word(s) - Beneficially Negative - this was a term placed in one of the comments. We loved it! While there is no linkable definition for this, we all know what it means!
Quote - "The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can." --- John Gardner
Quote - "The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them." --- Mark Twain
Quote - I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents... --- James Madison
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