“I think that is the fight that we have to wage if we're to save the middle class. And I do have doubts about whether Hillary Clinton or whether any Republican candidate out there is prepared to take on the big money interests who control so much of our economy and as a result of Citizens United, our political process as well.” IfsThinkingWellsBigsPoliticalFightingProcessInterestUnitedResultsClassEconomyDoubtMiddleCitizensRepublicanPreparedClintonCandidatesMiddle ClassCitizens United Author:Lindsey Graham
“Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.” LittlesPoliticalProcessCitizensDestructionPreparedExperimentsToxicAssuredMutually Assured Destruction Author:Tim Dorsey
“I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice.” ThinkingSoulChoicesCan DoGriefStruggleCitizensSorrowPreparedActiveBe PreparedComplacencyCitizenryPersonal Struggle Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.” GovernmentBeliefCitizensPreparedExpertsOfficialsPanicTrustedBiasEmergenciesPreparednessGovernment OfficialsLootingEmergency Preparedness Author:Amanda Ripley
“Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly enough, while all governments aim at producing men of this type to the exclusion of all other types, their heroes in the past are of exactly the sort that they aim at preventing in the present. Americans admire George Washington and Jefferson, but imprison those who share their political opinions.” MenPersonsEnoughGovernmentPastPoliticalOpinionShareTypeHeroCitizensAimPreparedAdmirePreservationStatus QuoPreventingExclusionPolitical Opinions Book:Education and the Social Order Source: Education and the Social Order
“The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the children, that they may be prepared to discharge aright the duties of men and citizens.” MenMayChildrenReligiousMoralDutyCitizensTrainingInstitutionsPreparedBe PreparedDischargeContinuance Author:Zachary Taylor