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“We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.”

Important Matter Government Glory Responsible Architect Ugliness

Author:Charlie Pierce

“The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.”

Wall Republican Shadow Conservative Monsters Mysterious Frank Closets

Author:Charlie Pierce

“If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.”

Ifs Humans Doe Produce Ignorance Institutions Vulnerable Squares

Author:Charlie Pierce

“For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.”

Heart May Government Spirit Notion Experiments Individualism Rugged American Spirit Rugged Individualism Huffing

Author:Charlie Pierce

“The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.”

Should College Mass Institutions Fundamentals Notion University Various Entertainment Deceit Providing Absurdity Athletics Spectacles Unreality

Author:Charlie Pierce

“Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.”

Horrible Damage Touched Hacks

Author:Charlie Pierce

“Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.”

People Should Ideas Self America President Moral Pride Bills Clinton Symbols Congratulations Arkansas

Author:Charlie Pierce

“There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.”

Soul Hands Law Liberty Our Lives Protect Roots Barbarism

Author:Charlie Pierce

“The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.”

Men Years Stills Ideas America Black President Inspire Kings Shots Awe Forty Luther Balconies

Author:Charlie Pierce

“As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.”

Persons Two Character Together Individual Language Memories Identity Familiar Crafts Two Things Compelling Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Charlie Pierce

“We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.”

People Purpose Statements Obligation Acknowledgement

Author:Charlie Pierce

“One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.”

People Stills Wonderful Stage Awareness Disease Tough Capacity Nancy Alzheimer Speaking Out Dames Great Change

Author:Charlie Pierce

“It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.”

Individual Common Effort Struggle Weakness Myth Doctrine Commonwealth Oligarchy

Author:Charlie Pierce

“There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.”

Self Reason Government Together Political Order Produce Products Productions Reason Why Latter Commonwealth Self-government

Author:Charlie Pierce

“If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?”

Ifs Funny Mother Witty Sarcasm Sarcastic Puppy Sarcastic Love Dark Sarcasm

Author:Charlie Pierce

“It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.”

Mother Black Gay Sarcasm Sarcastic Lgbt Homosexuality Homosexual Gay Rights Being Gay

Author:Charlie Pierce

“The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.”

Love Funny Turns Perfect Marriage Lovers Pizza Alaska Funny Love Pasta Perfect Love Perfect Lover

Author:Charlie Pierce

“According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.”

People Wells Certain President Office Tolerance Barack Ingratitude

Author:Charlie Pierce

“The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.”

Men Modern He Man Modern Politics

Author:Charlie Pierce

“Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.”

Knows Needs Ideas Campaigns God Knows

Author:Charlie Pierce

“There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.”

Angry Violent Greedy American Politics Reckless American Life

Author:Charlie Pierce

“In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.”

Sometimes Done Bigs Moving Order President Shells Big Things Things Done Peas

Author:Charlie Pierce

“You know, what genuinely makes me uneasy with the way things are going are not - is not really that Trump is going to do everything he said he was going to do, it`s that he has no idea of his job as president. Plus, the people who have been up close and realized that he has no idea how to do this job are leaking like sieves.”

People President Uneasy

Author:Charlie Pierce

“Every president learns on the job because nobody`s really prepared for the kind of decisions that cross your desk every day. No one`s prepared for that. No vice president who has scended to the presidency has ever truly been ready for that. Certainly, no vice president who`s assumed the presidency in extremis, like Harry Truman, has been ready for that. But this Trump guy doesn`t seem to be ready for a career in government.”

Kind Guy President Decision Vice President Truman

Author:Charlie Pierce

“I think, over the last couple of years, the written word has made a comeback on the Internet. For example, I'm seeing more long-form narrative experiments there. The overall noise level, however, continues to increase. Do we really need TV screens to watch when we pump gas? Really?”

Thinking Couple Internet Gas Comeback Written Word

Author:Charlie Pierce

“We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.”

Needs Self Honor Revolutionary Nelson Best Self

Author:Charlie Pierce

“Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.”

Pure Despair Tough Weak Optimism Optimistic Existential Naive Brooding

Author:Charlie Pierce

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Born: December 28, 1953
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