"But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)- that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are burned in containers of the earth. We have learned to give them the exact same portion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable of classrooms and textbooks. This learned sense of moral proportion, coming from the apparent objectivity of the scholar, is accepted more easily then when it comes from politicians at press conferences. It is therefore more deadly."
-the late Howard Zinn, author and historian.
“[Obama is] frustrated because he cares about the small people, and we care about the small people."
BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg
Whoopie Goldberg
"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."
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Robert Kennedy
"All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change."
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Paul Krugman
"[The Obama Administration officials] seem not to have learned, even now, that the right has an awesome ability to create its own reality: that Mitch McConnell et al would stand in the way of reform while claiming to be taking a stand against Wall Street."
Barney Frank
"George Bush appointed people [to financial regulation positions] who didn't believe in doing their job."
Eugene Robinson
"Nobody's going to be able to ignore [Michael Steele], if only because the people who book guests for television talk shows have his number on speed dial. He's the perfect guest: You never know what he's going to say."
Patrick Leahy
“You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions”
Amy Klobuchar
"In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.”
Nancy Pelosi
"America must be a light to the world, not just a missile."
Anthony Weiner
"Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice."
Arne Duncan
| “We've been able to do things - for example, close schools for academic failure. It is hugely difficult, it's hugely controversial and it's absolutely the right thing to do. That simply does not happen in other cities, because of a lack of political will.” |
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Nicholas Kristof
"Frankly, I find it very sad that this administration should seem so uninterested in Darfur, considering that three of the senators most active on Darfur in recent years were Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. "
Christopher Dodd
"I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!"
Christopher Hayes
"[S]anity has, tentatively, provisionally prevailed."
Harry Reid
"You don't need a lot of consultation if the person you're consulting with listens to you"
Al Gore
"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill,
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Johnny Weir
"There’s a whole generation of people that aren’t defined by their sex or their race or by who they like to sleep with. I think as a person you know what your values are and what you believe in, and I think that’s the most important thing."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
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