#politics

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead. ↗

— John Frohnmayer

#law #politics #art

Kill all the prisoners, because they’re costing us too much money. Wait! No, kill all the politicians, because they’re spending too much money. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#kill #money #politicians #politics #prisoners

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. ↗

— Robert F. Kennedy

#politics #inspirational

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#forward #means #move #must #participation

Pastor Ted and other evangelical pastors I hear about in the media seem to perceive just about everything to be a threat against Christianity. Evolution is a threat. Gay marriage is a threat. A swear word uttered accidentally on television is a threat. Democrats are a threat. And so on. I don't see how any of these things pose a threat against Christianity. If someone disagrees with you about politics, or social issues, or the matter of origins, isn't that just democracy and free speech in action? How do opposing viewpoints constitute a threat? ↗

— Hemant Mehta

#evangelicalism #politics #faith

Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did. ↗

— Beck Sherman

#politics #power #responisibility #men

Every society has the criminals it deserves. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#criminal #emma-goldman #politics #society #anarchism

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad. ↗

— Henry Kissinger

#politicians

That’s what happens when you crowd enough folks into the same sandbox: eventually they’re gonna start throwing a fit over who gets what part to play with. ↗

— Jacob D. Lochner

#politics #sociology #sociology

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#keep #organization #politics #power #take