Quotes About Domestic

Obviously, the domestic need is to shape an economic policy that assures long-term healthy economic growth and a reassertion of American competitiveness in international competition.

I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

The 'FISA Amendments Act' would gut the oversight system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review by a special intelligence court.

There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness' and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance.

For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.

Long before the migrant crisis, Sweden had codified its form of humanitarianism into the country's domestic and foreign-policy framework.

My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Basically, I'm a domestic goddess.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

Educating the world's poorest girls can only be done with the firm commitment of many stakeholders - both domestic and international - to plan, fund, and build strong, sustainable, and equitable education systems.

That was Wield, a mind for all seasons. In Pascoe's opinion he was one of the best cops in Mid-Yorkshire, if not in the whole country. Sticking at sergeant had been his own choice, at first because he didn't want his gayness to become a promotion issue, and latterly, since setting up home with Edwin Digweed, because he had no desire to take any step which might disturb his domestic happiness. In an unprejudiced society, he'd have been Commissioner by now, thought Pascoe.

The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

United States crude oil production continued at the 1920 rate of about 443 million barrels, Hibbert cautioned, the domestic supply would be exhausted by 1933.

By 1936, 90 percent of all US gasoline was leaded. Domestic consumption of tetraethyl lead reached a high of 5.1 million pounds in 1956. In 1959 the US Public Health Service supported an Ethyl Corporation request to increase the lead content of gasoline from 3 cc to 4 cc per gallon—because refiners had reached a limit in improving fuel through refining and were now losing yield to keep up octane.

My mother has always been the sort of woman whose emotional state can be intuited from the volume at which she rattles kitchen utensils.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England. Other countries, whatever title is actually used, have only manservants.

out back where I do the wash

He was a good man, ma'am,' she said. 'Never raised a hand to me.' The Queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife.

She got to where she was tripping me and beating me to the floor.

All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.