#state

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States. ↗

— Jonathan Turley

#comply #congress #days #fisa #initial

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#revolution #revolutionary #state-terrorism #terrorism #dictatorship

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country. ↗

— Gene Sharp

#foreign-states #dictatorship

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems. ↗

— Stephen E. Ambrose

#resourcefulness #united-states

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#united-states

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#politics #united-states #united-states

To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed by the president or a governor, and perhaps override a veto. A Supreme Court justice need only persuade four other people. If he or she is not internally constrained by the authority of a text, he or she is not constrained. ↗

— Michael J. Gerson

#politics #politics-of-the-united-states #same-sex-marriage #scotus #united-states

In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#content #country #different #each #football

This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

#here #just #michael #most #out

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#diseases #him #man #nature #originally