“There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.” ThinkingWellsMayCountryHelpingHandsNightHouseWhitePolicyNormalCrisisCampaignsTendenciesBrokeWhite HouseAlsForeign PolicyGore Author:David Gergen
“By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.” YearsHas BeensSometimesHouseWhiteBreakSixCrisisTiredFactorsWhite HouseFatigue Author:Ed Rollins
“Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.” IfsKnowsHeartDoneLyingSufferingWhiteSourceConscienceCrisisGuiltSouthSegregationSchizophreniaDegradingPatronizing Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.” ThinkingMadeWhiteCasesCrisisWestMalesMasculinity Author:Scott Thompson
“I heard today that the White House isn't even backing its own bill, because Democrats on the Hill pushed back against it. So now what they're asking for is just a clean $4 billion to help deal with the crisis with no policy reform. And I think that contributes to people having less confidence in their government.” PeopleThinkingHelpingGovernmentTodayHouseWhiteDealsHeardPolicyAskingCrisisBillsCleanDemocratBillionsReformHillsWhite House Author:Dana Perino
“As has been reported, and is unmistakably evident to all but the most naïve, federal employees have been ordered to exploit this crisis, to make the government shutdown as uncomfortable as they can. The White House is actively soliciting complaints from the general public on 'how the government shutdown has affected you.' These testimonies are tools sought for the propaganda kit; the better to agitate with.” Has BeensGovernmentHouseWhiteToolsCrisisPropagandaUncomfortableEmployeeAffectedWhite HouseComplaintsEvidentTestimonyExploitsGeneral PublicAgitateGovernment Shutdown Author:Paul Kengor
“Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.” WantRememberHouseWhiteSeriousWasteCrisisChiefsWhite HouseStaffCallousChief Of Staff Author:Bob Tyrrell
“African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white family. That 10 cents on the dollar that the African American family used to have crashed down to 5 cents on the dollar, given the focus of predatory lending on the African American community and the degree to which they were really devastated by the foreclosure crisis. So yeah, I think there is a lot of disappointment out there.” ThinkingUsedGivenCommunityWealthWhiteSawsFocusParticularDegreesCrisisYeahDollarsAverageDisappointmentAfrican AmericanCentsCrashLendingDevastatedAmerican FamilyCumulativePredatoryForeclosure Author:Jill Stein
“There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.” PeopleWayLongCountryTermWhiteNovelColorTrumpStandingTraditionCrisisLong TermWhite SupremacySupremacyStood Up Author:Junot Diaz
“If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentStoriesWould BeBlackWhiteHalfMillionsYears AgoDecidedCrisisBarackBlack PeopleGenesEntitledWhitenessDifferent Meanings Author:Eric Liu
“When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.” MenTryingFacesTurnsGrowsWhiteConditionsFiguresFitCrisisMaskTyrantsConventionalImpressWhite ManHollowPosingDummy Author:George Orwell
“The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.” WarAmericaBlackWhiteMiddlePeriodsCrisisSlaveryDuesCivil WarBlack And WhiteEmergenciesAbolitionSuspendedDecorum Book:America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines Source: America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines