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Marie Curie. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Buddha.   Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie…
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 John Pilger. Simone Weil. John Adams. The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope.…
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H.L. Mencken. George Eliot. John Kenneth Galbraith.   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins,…
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Stacey Abrams. Ana Navarro. Frederick Douglass. When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued…
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Walter Cronkite. Candice Carty-Williams. C. Wright Mills. I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left…
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Winston Churchill. Oscar Ameringer. Pat Paulsen.   A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to…
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Katha Pollitt. Maya Angelou. Sojourner Truth.   Even if we all decided to define personhood to include fertilized eggs and embryos and fetuses, they would not have the right to use a woman’s body…
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Dave Barry. Harry S. Truman. Will Ridgers. The question is why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing on national television that you…
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Sheng Wang.  Andrea Dworkin. Maya Angelou. Why do people say “grow some balls”? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding. - Sheng…
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Meg Greenfied. Claire Sargent. Caroline Baum. If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do,…
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Molly Ivins. Will Rogers. Joseph Stalin. I want to point out, there are a lot of politicians who enjoy the political end of politics, but they're not interested in governance. And then, there are…
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H.L. Mencken. Albert Einstein. Hermione Gingold. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of…
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Christine Milne. Serena Williams. Charlotte Bronte. Destroying the joint means building a new system in which it is not OK to allow people to be marginalised, exploited and discriminated against, it's not OK to…
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H.L. Mencken. George Orwell. Julian Barnes. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks…
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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. Rosa Parks (more…)
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William Gladstone. John Kenneth Galbraith. Plato. Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. William E. Gladstone. (more…)
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Fredrich Nietzsche. Nikita Krushchev. Albert Einstein.   It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! Friedrich Nietzsche. (more…)
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Will Rogers. Nikita Khruschev. Winston Churchill. If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress? Will Rogers (more…)
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H.L. Mencken. Issac Asimov. Frantz Fanon.   As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain…
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Robert Orben. Naomi Klein. Vladimir Lenin. Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. Robert Orben (more…)
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Nancy Isenberg. Bradley Whitford. Joseph Stalin. When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win. Nancy Isenberg (more…)
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William E. Gladstone. Adlai Stevenson. Plato.   Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. William E. Gladstone, 1866 (more…)
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George Jean Nathan. Alexis de Tocqueville. Orson Welles.   Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. George Jean Nathan…