#pol

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#basketball #basketball player #became #been #hasn

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#bed #child #corrupting #corruption #father

The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#allow #citizens #enforcement #free #give

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#any #approach #genuine #him #his

Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#bush #clinton #clinton administration #creating #eventually

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan. ↗

— Rick Allen

#cosmopolitan #dublin #happy #i #very

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. ↗

— Tom Allen

#national #plants #pollution #power #power plants

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#art #development #find #knowledge #life

As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment (p. 290). ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equality

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#microsoft #monopoly #operating #operating systems #over