“I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.” Quote by Jonathan Raymond
“During a time of surplus, a time of peace before 2001, it was much easier to try and find middle ground. We were running surpluses. But during a time when we're careening into bankruptcy and failing miserably on our foreign policy it's just not the same old "find consensus, go along to get along, be pragmatic, come together" place that it was. I think that some very hard decisions and very hard choices have to be made. They won't be popular, but they're necessary.” ThinkingTryingRunningTogetherChoicesDecisionFailingPolicyForeign PolicyConsensusPragmaticBankruptcy Author:Dan Coats
“Everybody has some responsibility. The point is, how are we going to fix it? And you don't fix it simply by blaming the other guy, or blaming the past.” PastGuyResponsibilityBlameOther Guys Author:Dan Coats
“Every president inherits difficult problems. George W. Bush inherited eight years of a failed foreign policy and did nothing about the growing threat of Islamic terrorism, except a one-time lob of a cruise missile into the desert at a camp that had long been abandoned. George Bush inherited that, and 9-11 was the result of that. Every president inherits problems. Harry Truman inherited a war. Stop blaming the person before you and go forward and take leadership and deal with the problem.” LongWarProblemDifficultPresidentPolicyBlameThreatTerrorismIslamicAbandonedForeign PolicyCruiseTruman Author:Dan Coats
“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.” LifeInspirationalTeacherAtheismParadoxRetirementProfessorsThinker Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money.” ProblemRunningSocialism Author:Margaret Thatcher
“I'm not a big note-taker, so I think that the way I decide is that whatever I remember I always consider something that's important. If I remember a joke then I know it's a good joke, if I remember a story then I know it's a good story, and so that's how I curate what stories I'm going to write for the book. And I go over them again, make sure there's a theme and all that stuff, but mostly, it is intuition.” ThinkingWritingImportantBookRememberJokesIntuition Author:Kelly Oxford
“Canadians always make jokes about the arrogant American, but the longer I'm here, the more I realize, "Oh, it isn't that they're arrogant, it's just the way that their country is set up you really have to protect yourself and you really have to look after yourself, and with that comes the mentality of 'I'm doing my thing here, if you don't like it, get over it.'"” CountryRealizingProtectJokesOver ItMentalityArrogantProtect Yourself Author:Kelly Oxford
“I am a very emotional person. I basically think and feel in emotion, so writing is much easier for me than communicating by voice or by talking to somebody just because I can really get into the emotion more succinctly with writing. So I guess that's what makes me a better writer than speaker.” ThinkingWritingEmotionEmotionalCommunicateSpeakers Author:Kelly Oxford
“It's no accident that there is a nexus between Trump, Roger Stone and Infowars and Alex Jones. It's very much an Infowars presidency in many ways. The President is a conspiracy theorist. He has reliably touted conspiracy theories. It's a core part of how he processes the world epistemically. That is deeply, deeply dangerous, and disturbing.” WorldPresidentDangerousConspiracyConspiracy Theory Author:Chris Hayes
“Americans like to humiliate wrongdoers...We like, in short, to punish. It makes us feel good. By every conceivable metric - arrests, prosecutions, duration of sentences, conditions of imprisonment - the United States is by far the most punitive rich democracy.” DemocracyRichFeel GoodImprisonmentHumiliate Author:Chris Hayes