#era

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#actions #appalling #bad #bad people #generation

I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous. ↗

— Peter King

#certain #certain ways #considered #control #dangerous

Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done. ↗

— Peter King

#authoritative #being #bosnia #deliberate #done

I think there has been a lack of full cooperation from too many people in the Muslim community. ↗

— Peter King

#community #cooperation #full #i #i think

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.' ↗

— Peter King

#because #dump #funeral #george #go

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse. ↗

— Peter King

#america #controlled #council #department #even

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Stephen King

#beauty #beholder #children #eye #eye of the beholder

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. ↗

— Stephen King

#celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #discussion #gun

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. ↗

— Stephen King

#big #big mac #equivalent #fries #i

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? ↗

— Stephen King

#boots #could #died #dying #equivalent