-Karen Salamohn
"Government is not the solution to our problems, Government is the problem” --Ronald Reagan
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden, describing fellow candidate Barack Obama
"Underlying the contemporary conservative view is a belief that government is oppressive no matter what form a political system takes."
—E.J. Dionne Jr.
"To me, democratic socialism means democracy. "It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country." “It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.”
"To me, democratic socialism means democracy.
"It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country."
“It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.”
—Bernie Sanders
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
—Ronald Reagan, campaign speech, 1980
"I never knew anything above Cs."
—President Reagan describes his academic record to Barbara Walters, November 27, 1981
"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."
—Ronald Reagan (Republican candidate for president), cited in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, February 15, 1980. (In reality, the average nuclear reactor generates 30 tons of radioactive waste per year.)
"Approximately 80 percent of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation. So let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards for man-made sources."
—Ronald Reagan, cited in Sierra, September 10, 1980 (According to Dr. Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund, industrial sources are responsible for at least 65 percent and possibly as much as 90 percent of the oxides of nitrogen in the U.S.)
"Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon."
—Ronald Reagan, cited in the Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1980. (The U.S. Department of Transportation calculates that a 14-car train traveling at 80 miles per hour gets 400 passenger miles to the gallon. A 1980 auto carrying an average of 2.2 people gets 42.6 passenger miles to the gallon.)
"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary."
—Ronald Reagan, LA Times, October 20, 1965
"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
—Ronald Reagan, LA Times, June 17, 1966
"Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy."
—James David Barber, presidential scholar, cited by Mark Hertsgaard, On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency
"Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears."
—British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, speaking to one of her officials about Reagan, cited by Peter Jenkins, Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution
"Whataboutism is a very substantial part of populism rhetoric."
— Dmitry Dubrovski
@UKGuy @DaringSprinter @HogboblinZwei
Please lay off the political quotes. Cease and desist. Do not.
Thanks.
"As I'm sure you know ... if you are expecting someone at a certain time and they have not shown up, it is difficult to know exactly when to give up and decide they are not coming.
"For instance, if you are a dentist and your patient has an appointment at five, at five twenty-five you might wait five more minutes before giving up and deciding that the patient has forgotten about the appointment, or is so frightened of having their teeth cleaned that they have locked themselves into a closet and refused to come out.
"If you are a birdwatcher and at six forty-five you are still waiting for the arrival of the six thirty pigeon, you might wait twenty more minutes before giving up and deciding that the pigeon has been eaten by a cat, or has accidentally overslept."
—Lemony Snicket, The Unauthorized Autobiography
(And if you're waiting for a cuddler....)
Noted, @Sideon. Thank you.
-Wayne Dyer
“To destroy a culture, you must first sever its roots.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
'Do nothing, watch what happens.' ~ my bumber sticker
You start dying slowly when you kill your self-esteem, when you do not let others help you. You start dying slowly if you become a slave of your habits, walking every day on the same paths, if you do not change your routine, If you do not wear different colours or you do not speak to those you don’t know. You start dying slowly if you avoid feeling passion and its turbulent emotions, those which make your eyes glisten and your heart beat fast. You start dying slowly if you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain if you do not go after a dream if you do not allow yourself at least once in your lifetime to run away from sensible advice. Don't let yourself die slowly . . .
~ Martha Medeiros