#si

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#back #before #current #evidence #facts

Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#life-lessons #love #passion #equality

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#carter #democrats #difference #increasingly #like

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american children #children #five #living #number

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#conservatives #hear #lower #lowered #more

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#broken #had #his #johnson #man

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image. ↗

— William Ames

#god #image #man #purity #real

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#back #bruce #bruce springsteen #california #called

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#just #like #predecessors #presidents #their

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#civil war #forward #history #ii #non