#old

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democrat #holds #office #republican #some

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#convince #old #plain #political #time

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#everything #felt #glory #gold #hands

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for! ↗

— Richard Trumka

#building #case #develop #dime #electoral

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#be happy #beyond #commencement #everything #fine

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#unfolding

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#balances #devices #diplomacy #during #fascism

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#along #country #country music #favorites #george

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#beautiful things #blessed #depressed #feel #got

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge. ↗

— Alan Turing

#cold #consistency #fact #interested #not interested