“No place is too common. No person is too hardened. No distance is too far. There's no person God cannot reach. There's no limit to his love.” PersonsCommonLimitsDistanceHis LoveHardened Author:Max Lucado
“When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards.” PeopleMeanPrisoner Author:Lil Wayne
“The tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is indeed possible for a committed, relatively small number of folks across the country to make Congress listen to them and to slow and stop an agenda.” CountryPartyNumbersCongressFolksCommittedScaryTeaAgendasAggressiveNastyPettyTacticsTea PartySmall Numbers Author:Ezra G. Levin
“Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.” IfsMenBelieveLongUseTogetherUsedWhitePartyRichTrumpRepublicanShotsVoteMajorityStrategyTeaMinoritiesWhite ManTacticsRepresentingTea PartyPopular VoteLong Shots Author:Ezra G. Levin
“You have to be local. You have to focus on your local members of Congress.” FocusMembersCongressLocals Author:Ezra G. Levin
“Members of Congress care about reelection most of all. And that means they care about their constituents. So you have to be a constituent to make your voice heard.” MeanCareVoiceHeardMembersCongressConstituentsReelection Author:Ezra G. Levin
“One strategy that the tea party smartly embraced was one of being almost entirely defensive. They consciously decided not to figure out which of their really abominable conservative policy priorities to prioritize. Instead, anything that came out of the Obama White House they were against. What they recognized is that when you've lost the White House and the House of Representatives and the Senate, you're not setting the agenda anymore. We progressives find ourselves in a similar situation now.” HouseLostWhitePartySituationFiguresPolicyDecidedStrategyConservativePrioritiesSettingSettingsTeaAgendasWhite HouseSenateRepresentativesTea PartyPrioritizeHouse Of Representatives Author:Ezra G. Levin