#pol

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#bring #cancer #cause #classic #discovered

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders). ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#additional #bipartisan #deeply #gain #incumbents

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. ↗

— Preston Manning

#american #canadian #definition #dislikes #fears

It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite. ↗

— Johnny Manziel

#everybody #great #group #here #incredibly

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. ↗

— Manning Marable

#beyond #black #categories #construct #dismantling

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures. ↗

— Manning Marable

#crisis #development #only #political #politics

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. ↗

— Chris Marker

#cross-section #history #i #insofar #interest

That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then a new thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver went up her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis of grace? ↗

— Penelope Marzec

#disability #inspirational #lawyer #police-officer #romance

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit. ↗

— Lee Marvin

#drink #drinking #finally #go #just

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder. ↗

— Tim Ryan

#attention deficit #deficit #disorder #foreign #foreign policy