#pow

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#anyway #causes #even #fundamental #greed

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#car #car keys #giving #keys #like

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#bedrock #built #consent #derive #governed

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#christians #cows #dairy #fun #high

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. ↗

— Barack Obama

#cannot #civilian #continue #force #got

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. ↗

— Barack Obama

#each #eight #electricity #enough #expanded

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. ↗

— Barack Obama

#ago #based #because #declaration #economy

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act. ↗

— Barack Obama

#moral #moral responsibility #nuclear #nuclear power #nuclear weapon

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ↗

— Barack Obama

#answer #anyway #i #i think #our

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. ↗

— Barack Obama

#about #absolute #absolute power #chambers #either