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New Rule: America must stop bragging it’s the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I know this is uncomfortable for the “faith over facts” crowd, but the greatness of a country can,...

—Bill Maher

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Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don’t want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

—Stephen L.

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Moreover, I believe that part of America’s genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores. In this we’ve been...

—Barack Obama

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EqualityHopePolitics
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Jesus is not a white, middle-class Republican. Jesus is not a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Marxist, or a Socialist. Jesus is not a Baptist, a Catholic, a Lutheran, or a Buddhist. Jesus isn’t even a...

—Ronnie McBrayer

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Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator’s minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]

—Adrian Goldsworthy

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What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations as a whole — rather than narrowly abstract, concerned only with...

—Terry Eagleton

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I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

—Charles Dickens

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You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you’ve seized that power, there’s no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell...

—Scott Lynch

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Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

—Aristotle

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In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor,judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush’sorder calls this Soviet-style abomination ‘a...

—William Safire

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The kind of self-righteous intolerance once associated with the more puritanical forms of religion and the more extreme forms of Socialism now reappeared to promote the ‘rights’ of women, homosexuals, racial minorities, the disabled and...

—Christopher Booker

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Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people,...

—Robert Higgs

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Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.

—Charles Sumner

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America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can’t be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on...

—Thomas L.

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Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean...

—Christopher Hitchens

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I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are...

—Terry Pratchett

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You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it’s enough to tell a few good jokes.

—David Nicholls

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It’s strange, but I find myself more disillusioned by a man who has such easily persuaded views than I would be by one whose views were entirely opposite but passionately held. Isn’t that quixotic of...

—Elizabeth Hoyt

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Wananchi wanapokosa huduma za muhimu za kijamii (kama vile afya, elimu, chakula, malazi, na ulinzi) ilhali wanalipa kodi, na wameajiri serikali kuwaendeshea nchi kwa kiapo cha uaminifu wa vitabu vitakatifu, watakosa imani na serikali yao!...

—Enock Maregesi

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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

—Franklin D.

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The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards,...

—Hunter S.

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DeathMoneyPolitics
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The authorities don’t grant concessions out of the kindness of their hearts; they simply concede the reality of what their subjects are strong enough to compel from them. If you want political leverage, don’t beg...

—CrimethInc.

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In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

—Graydon Carter

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Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I...

—Dmitri Mendeleev

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It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path – up or down – meaning it isn’t always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To...

—Criss Jami

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What is the difference between yesterday occupation & today’s freedom.

—Islam A.

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Everyone can be a leader irrespective of their age, race, creed, nationality or political affiliation. Once you can figure out your talents and optimize them very well, at the right place and at the right...

—Israelmore Ayivor

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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

—Eve Ensler

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A slinky is a toy made for stairs, but that’s entirely too tiresome. What about a toy for escalators that doesn’t move and does nothing and that’s the whole point? I think Americans would relate...

—Jarod Kintz

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Power concedes nothing without a demand.

—Frederick Douglass

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A job is like a politician struggling in the water. Be sure you hold it down.

—Jarod Kintz

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The main cause of the ineffectiveness of British propaganda is that those directing it seem to have lost their own belief in the peculiar values of English civilization or to be completely ignorant of the...

—Friedrich Hayek

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I, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. Your party system is one of your thefts from our Church; your National Convention is our...

—Henry Adams

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In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

—George Orwell

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I’m going to go out on a limb and say that’s the best place to hang a noose. More politicians need to be sticking their necks out for us.

—Jarod Kintz

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I’m a handyman. I work with my hand. I masturbate for a living. That’s right, I’m in politics.

—Jarod Kintz

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Republicans don’t stand for the beliefs of the right, and Democrats don’t stand for the principles of the left. They each stand for one thing—a public willing to remain seated like obedient children, while they...

—Jarod Kintz

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CandyPolitics
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It’s a fact I want to own a factory that makes up facts and figures, and I figure to make a fortune selling to politicians.

—Jarod Kintz

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HumorPolitics
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When I burp I’m not just pushing polluted air into the world—no, I’m espousing my belief on the true nature of politicians.

—Jarod Kintz

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You shit sheep shapes, and I shit wolves as brown as bark. It’s all politics.

—Jarod Kintz

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HumorPoliticsShit
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Leadership is being the first to put others second. Wait, that’s not right. That’s politics.

—Jarod Kintz

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People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth belaboring: In the ancestral environment, politics was a matter of life and death....

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

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I believe the shortest path between two points involves an elaborate maze as the only option of travel, entry and exit fees, and forms and applications that must be approved before the journey can even...

—Jarod Kintz

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Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks; fiction is flowing water.

—Elif Shafak

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FictionPolitics
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When journalists are ‘accused’ of being ‘advocates’, that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

—Glenn Greenwald

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There was a car in front of me driving all conservatively, and then, lo and behold, I saw that he had a Romney bumper sticker.

—Gregor Collins

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My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive. Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they have to live in the...

—G.K. Chesterton

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The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that...

—Emma Goldman

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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

—George Washington

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Failure isn’t something to be embarassed about; it’s just proof that you’re pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

—Gavin Newsom

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