“Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.” YearsBelieveGovernmentNationsSocialAchieveSecurityBirthRepublicanProgramFaultsClintonCurrentsProsperityDuesYesterdayChecksPrivilegedSocial SecurityGasolineGovernment ProgramsGasoline Prices Author:Ann Richards
“The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” IfsBelieveEndsCountryGovernmentLawChallengesDemocracyDangerousBirthStandingArmyInstitutionsDareTrialsTendenciesOur CountryCorporationsCrushEstablishmentBankingRulingSincerelySplendidDefianceAristocracyIncorporation Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.” UseGovernmentSchoolFormReligiousPrayerViewsLibertySupportTakenGroupsAtheismBirthTaxesIncludingPositive AtheismFinanceOrganizedAbortionIntroducingRevenuePublic SchoolCivil LibertiesBirth ControlOutlawZealousReligious Views Author:Norman Dorsen
“The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.” IfsThinkingUseBodyGovernmentLinesFeminismBirthAbsolutesIndependentIndependenceBottomYour BodyBottom LineBirth ControlBedrock Author:Erica Jong
“Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.” GivingSoulBodyGovernmentSchoolParentEducationTeacherBuildingBirthIndiaMagnificentConstructsGuruGiverSchool Buildings Author:Narendra Modi
“Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.” IfsMenGivingMayMeanGovernmentFatherOpinionClassDemocracyObjectsBirthWalkingTraditionVoteDemocratRefuseAccidentsDefinedGood ManNeglectAncestorArrogantSubmitObscureExtensionsOur FatherRough TimesOligarchy Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.” MenLooksPersonsDoeIdeasStatesGovernmentIndividualChurchClassDemocracyGreaterOughtBirthPureOppositesRegardPropertyAccidentsMeritHolinessEtcInternalsAllowingReverseLook At MeDisregard Book:Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.” WorldHas BeensHomeGovernmentCareChoicesSimplePovertyHeardDevelopmentBirthSafeConflictInstitutionsComplicatedPlanningEmploymentHealth CareRebellionConsumptionIgnoredOrthodoxyBirth ControlFamily PlanningCairo Author:Anna Quindlen
“Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.” GovernmentIndividualBirthInjuryPreventing Author:Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal
“Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.” IfsGovernmentEyeKidsAsksBitsSilenceWatchesBirthBlameConcertsYellowManufacturingSpongesCondomSpongebob Squarepants Author:Thom Yorke
“Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while the parents reside there under the protection of the government, and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth.” ChildrenCountryGovernmentLawParentBornCommonSubjectsBirthProtectionDoctrineAliensTemporaryAllegianceOwingCommon Law Author:St. George Tucker
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” CountryGovernmentLawPoliticalHopeChallengesStrengthBirthHistoricalDareTrialsSocialismOur CountryCorporationsCrushPatrioticDefianceAristocracyCorporatismPlutocracyMultinational Corporations Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826 Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826
“I don't care where [Ted] Cruz comes from. I don't care where the President comes from. Day one, I opened an investigation on a fraudulent government Hawaii document, period, on a birth certificate, so if you can say Cruz has fake documents, okay.” IfsGovernmentCarePresidentBirthPeriodsOkayDon't CareI Don't CareFakeInvestigationDocumentsHawaiiCruzCertificatesBirth Certificate Author:Joe Arpaio
“I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.” MeanMomentsGovernmentModernBirthSpendingDrivenInfrastructure1930sPublic Sector Author:Judy Woodruff
“We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves, if we go too far, if we sort of trample unreasonably on rights, we'll give birth to a political movement which will cost us our credibility, and will possibly cost us our offices, because people will vote for the other team, the other guys.” PeopleIfsGivingGovernmentPoliticalGuyRightsTeamMovementBirthCivilizationCostOfficeModelsVoteIdeologyAlternativesCredibilityClashOther GuysPolitical MovementsClash Of Civilizations Author:Edward Snowden
“One of the major causes of poverty is a lack of family planning. Governments and nonprofit organizations need to encourage poor people to use birth control so that they don't have unexpected babies, which will only make poorer families poorer.” PeopleNeedsUseGovernmentCausesPoorPovertyBabyBirthMajorsOrganizationPlanningUnexpectedPoor PeopleBirth ControlNonprofitsFamily PlanningCauses Of Poverty Author:Philip Kotler
“That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” PeopleGodGovernmentEarthNationsBirthDiedVainCivil WarPatriotismResolvePatrioticAmerican Civil WarAmerican PatrioticAmerican PatriotPerishingGettysburgUs Civil WarGettysburg AddressAmendment 13 Author:Abraham Lincoln
“Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.” Has BeensSeemsGovernmentPoliticsBirthHealthyConservativeAgencyAcquireSkepticismGovernment ProgramsGovernment Agencies Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn’t be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.” PeopleShouldPersonsGovernmentAmericaGivenInterestPrinciplesRightsTalentBirthCircumstancesProtectTrapped Author:Marco Rubio
“Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old.” PeopleChildrenWarGovernmentKidsPainYoungSufferingOrderPresidentCompanyBirthSubstanceCheatAnguishInsurance Companies Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.” PeopleIfsNeedsGovernmentCitiesSeaBirthTravelPaperOfficialsFunny TravelCertificatesBirth CertificateCentralized Government Author:Edwidge Danticat