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I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over. ↗

— John Avlon

#administration #been #being #believe #comes

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right. ↗

— John Avlon

#calling #comparing #him #hitler #important

But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20. ↗

— David Axelrod

#against #age #allowing #back #because

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations. ↗

— David Axelrod

#committed #concerned #consumed #i #i think

The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so. ↗

— David Axelrod

#allowed #believe #companies #insurance #insurance companies

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace. ↗

— David Axelrod

#both sides #buy #competitive #embrace #idea

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#chicago #claim #demonstration #everyone #felt

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#books #could #explain #had #knew

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#i #like #quick #rap #understand

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#around #been #call #comes #culture