“I think if you look at where things are in this current political climate, you'll see that everything is polarized. Everyone has their own eco chamber that they can operate in; there aren't a lot of people interacting with each other. For me, with something like film, that's an opportunity to try to bridge those gaps.” PeopleThinkingTryingFilmPoliticalOpportunity Author:Robert Schenkkan
“I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.” PeopleNovelStruggleListeningInspiredGym Author:Mika
“President Barack Obama, to his credit, has given - issued personal pardons in deserving cases. But he should go far beyond. He should proceed to what is in fact an urgent necessity: to grant a general pardon to 11 million people who are living and working here, productive citizens in all but name, threatened with deportation by the incoming Donald Trump administration. This would be a horrible humanitarian tragedy, a moral outrage.” PeoplePresidentMoralTragedyHumanitarianHorribleBarackProductiveDeservingPresident Barack Obama Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's no doubt that the Donald Trump administration, part of the red meat that he ran on from the first day when he announced his candidacy was a very extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric that he kept up through the whole campaign - the wall, deportation, more detention. And I think that that particular piece of red meat, he's going to throw out every once in a while and try to - of all the commitments that he's made, this is the one that is most disturbing, because it's one that he will try to fulfill through his presidency.” ThinkingTryingDoubtWallCommitmentRanRhetoric Author:Raul Grijalva
“I believe the ability to measure with precision the degree of human activities' impact on the climate, is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it.” BelieveI BelieveAbilityDebate Author:Scott Pruitt
“The environmental agenda before the Congress includes laws to deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise, careless land development and many other environmental problems. These problems will not stand still for politics or for partisanship.” ProblemWaterOceanEnvironmentalPollution Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Over the first two weeks of the Donald Trump administration, Steve Bannon has emerged as one of the most powerful figures in the White House. The New York Times ran an editorial posing the question, "President Bannon?" wrote, quote, "We've never witnessed a political aide move as brazenly to consolidate power as Stephen Bannon - nor have we seen one do quite so much damage so quickly to his putative boss's popular standing or pretenses of competence."” MovingPoliticalHousePresidentPowerfulWeekRanMost PowerfulCompetencePretense Author:Amy Goodman
“There's a level of frustration and anger here in the United States that we're not prosecuting this war, and we're actually in discussions about bringing over Muslim refugees into this country, with a president who's now mocking, you know, the talk radio people, mocking the audience on talk video, mocking the sites like Breitbart, that are bringing up these issues.” PeopleWarCountryPresidentAudienceDiscussionFrustrationRefugee Author:Stephen K. Bannon
“I think we need to do two things - or three things. One is we need to put a stop on refugees until we can vet.” ThinkingRefugee Author:Ryan Zinke
“In seven years, we'll have the highest percentage of Americans non-native born since the founding of the republic. And some people think, "Well, we've always had these numbers." But it's not so. This is very unusual. It's a radical change. And in fact, when the numbers reached about this high in 1924, the president and Congress changed the policy, and it slowed down immigration significantly. And we then assimilated through the 1965 and created really the solid middle class of America, with assimilated immigrants, and it was good for America.” PeopleThinkingPresidentPolicyChangedSevenImmigrationRadicalMiddle ClassUnusual Author:Jeff Sessions