“To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.” WarMovingPoliticalPartyStruggleEconomyEconomicPolicyBrokenNeededDemandLaborOvercomingIndependentUnionsPracticalsGiantsSophisticatedTacticsEconomic PowerSlumps Author:C. Wright Mills
“I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsShouldMeanBigsPartyMarriageBrokenEasierTasteFairsContractsAestheticVowClausesMarriage Vows Author:Jill McCorkle
“...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.” LastsPartyHavensNew YorkBrokenRepublicanEastRepublican PartyAmerican PoliticsEditorials Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.” SelfIndividualInterestPartyBrokenRepublicanPressureAggressiveRestraintRepublican PartyNormSelf InterestAbnormalSelf RestraintBroken Down Author:George Packer
“Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined brand,- as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.” IfsYearsIdeasHardReasonLeftSpeakLanguagePresidentPartyLeaderPolicySeriousBrokenBuiltFortuneMarketingBrandsThinkerRuinedMarketersFollowershipPushed Away Author:Peggy Noonan
“Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.” StatesPartyCuttingBrokenTaxesUnionsCirclesRanWelfareLabourPollsCrushedDespisedWelfare StateMinersLabour Party Author:Jon Weisman
“In the last presidential election Obama and Romney raised about $1 billion each. The Koch brothers, the second wealthiest family in America, now say they will raise nearly $1 billion for the 2016 elections. When one family can raise as much as an entire party, the system is broken. This is oligarchy, not democracy. We must overturn Citizens United.” LastsAmericaUnitedPartyDemocracyBrotherBrokenCitizensRaisesElectionRaisedBillionsPresidentialRomneyOligarchyPresidential ElectionCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties... to his college, eventually the navy, the Democratic Party and certain ideals of our country. Those are the things that became broken with my generation.” CountryCertainFatherPartyGenerationsCollegeBrokenLateIdealsDemocraticLoyaltyOur CountryTransitionNavyDemocratic PartyMy Generation1930s Author:Whit Stillman
“Of course, our immigration system isn't broken. The enforcement of our immigration system is broken. The president Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, and several in the Republican Party are trying to break the immigration system. The system itself is not broken; it's just fine. It's just being ignored.” TryingPresidentPartyBreakBrokenRepublicanDemocratImmigrationBarackIgnoredRepublican PartyPresident Barack ObamaBeing Ignored Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the US, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here. When I moved to Britain, the utilities were state-run. By the time I left, most of that was privatized. Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.” PassionPartyCuttingBrokenTaxesWorshipMovedConservativeRanWelfareLabourUtilityCrushedGreat Passion Author:Jon Weisman
“Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.” WantDonePartyMovementBrokenMessagesUnhappyTeaThings DoneTea PartyReckoningTea Party Movement Author:Rand Paul
“Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.” PartyBrokenForgivenessForgivingPreparedForgivenReconciliationBroken Down Author:Charles Williams
“He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.” PeopleIfsPersonsLawSinLove IsPartyBrokenConcernedMake SenseWoundedOffenseForgivenOffendedInjured Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics