“I was - in this magazine, it referred to me as "political parrot." And I thought, "That's the best you can come up with, really?" Okay, and I think it made fun of something I was wearing. But that does happen, and it happens a lot with female journalists, folks.” ThinkingDoeMadeHappensPoliticalFunFemaleOkayFolksCome UpMagazinesJournalistParrots Author:Kellyanne Conway
“When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].” HomeSittingFolksChairsRocking ChairsFolks Home Author:Brent Spiner
“[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The symbolism was in - and this sounds really, really small, but it's actually big for African-Americans - the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.” ThinkingBigsHouseWinningSoundWhiteFiguresProudAchievementFolksBarackAfrican AmericanWhite HouseEmbarrassmentSymbolism Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible. You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there's some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.” ThinkingKnowsHomeCertainHouseLevelsMorningConditionsOrdinaryShameDrinkingFolksCornersGet UpAfrican AmericanNeighborhoodComing HomeIrresponsibleUp EarlyHanging On Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.” TwoNightPartyGrewCitizensGrew UpOrdinaryTheaterFolksWoodsSneakStrandsOrdinary Citizens Author:Howard Rheingold
“Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this to hit people in their gut, and the hope is that by doing that, we can get more people to think more deeply about these issues.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksWantedIssuesMedicineFolksGutsEpidemics Author:Ava DuVernay
“There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been looking at her direction. She's not done it before because you've not given her the opportunity to do it before, and I'm just happy that folks like Jessica Jones' Melissa Rosenberg and folks like Ryan Murphy are also embracing this idea.” Has BeensIdeasReasonDoneMightOpportunityGivenChanceFolksFilmmakerNo ReasonTake A ChanceMurphyJessicaMelissaJessica Jones Author:Ava DuVernay
“If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.” IfsSeemsGovernmentStuffGreaterEffectsNewsFolksHearingPropagandaFakeReportsSurprisingIdenticalPartisansVenuesPropagandist Author:Barack Obama
“Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.” IfsSongNextWeekFieldsSingingFolksNext DayFolk Songs Author:Johnny Cash
“A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.” MenSongWhiteGoneModernFolksVersionsWhite ManStylistFolk Songs Author:Johnny Cash
“In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this guy is really going to do, not only for them but for the country. If the country is injured, they will be injured. That may be sinking in.” IfsThinkingMayCountryGuyBlackWonderVoteElectionFolksThis GuyInjuredVirginiaSinking Author:Nat Hentoff
“The tragedy is what - given the 'right circumstances,' - normal decent folks, like you and me, will do. This is what makes me worry whenever looking on the road that Israel entered and shows no intention of leaving.” ShowsGivenWorryLike YouCircumstancesNormalTragedyIntentionLeavingFolksIsraelDecent Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“You know, folks, I'm going to make America great again. Honestly, I'm going to make America great again.” KnowsAmericaFolksHonestly Author:Tim Watters
“At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.” PeopleStillsEnoughClassMiddleFolksMiddle ClassEarningEmployed Author:Julian Castro
“To the parents, basically, of the dreamers, which was DAPA. I understand, of course, the concern that a lot of folks have had with the number of deportations. But there again, I believe that the president [Barack Obama] has made an earnest attempt to address those issues.” BelieveMadeCoursesI BelieveParentPresidentNumbersIssuesConcernFolksBarackAddressesDreamerEarnestPresident Barack ObamaDeportation Author:Julian Castro
“So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot.” TrumpConcernNegativeFolksCampaignsBallots Author:Julian Castro
“The Trump critics are legion, and they want him to fail, and my best advice is to just not listen to any of that and wait for Trump to be inaugurated and wait for this stuff to take off. He's gonna need you to continue to support him, folks.” WantNeedsStuffWaitingSupportFailingAdviceTrumpCriticsFolksNeed YouWant HimBest AdviceLegion Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think that there is a particular mindset that was on display in the run-up to the Iraq war that continues to this day. Some of the folks who were involved in that decision either don't remember what they said or are entirely unapologetic about the results, but that views the Middle East as a place where force and intimidation will deliver on the security interests that we have, and that it is not possible for us to at least test the possibility of diplomacy.” ThinkingSaidWarRunningRememberForceInterestDecisionResultsViewsMiddleSecurityPossibilityParticularInvolvedTestsFolksIraqMindsetEastThis DayDisplayMiddle EastThey SaidDiplomacyIraq WarIntimidationUnapologetic Author:Barack Obama
“Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities that feel forgotten. That's going to be our most important strategy. And I think we can successfully do that.” ThinkingFeelsImportantHelpingCommunityStrategyForgottenFolksInequalityToneOfferingDeafPrescriptions Author:Barack Obama
“Here's the problem, we need folks like John Lewis and others who, I think, have been champions of voter rights, to actually recognize the fact that Donald Trump was duly elected.” ThinkingNeedsHas BeensFactsProblemRightsTrumpFolksChampionVoters Author:Reince Priebus
“I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on their side of the aisle, look, we may have lost the election on the Democrat side, but it's time to come together.” ThinkingLooksMayTogetherLostSidesCan DoElectionDemocratFolksAdministrationAisle Author:John Lewis
“I think what you're going to get from President-elect [ Donald] Trump is all of his folks together - Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, John Kelly, CIA, Homeland Security, everyone that you would want in the room, making decisions about that particular document and treaties like that document as to how we're going move forward.” ThinkingWantTogetherMovingPresidentDecisionRoomsSecurityParticularTrumpFolksMoving ForwardDocumentsCiaHomelandTreatiesMaking DecisionsHomeland Security Author:Reince Priebus
“We will cover those folks that are on ObamaCare that need to be covered, but at the same time, we're going to find ways to lower prices, allow people to choose better doctors, and have a lot more freedom when it comes to health care.” PeopleWayNeedsCareDoctorsFolksHealth CareCoveredObamacare Author:Reince Priebus
“I know that some of the folks in the press are uptight about this [moving the press corps out of the West Wing ], and I understand. What we're - the only thing that's been discussed is whether or not the initial press conferences are going to be in that small press - and for the people listening to this that don't know this, that the press room that people see on TV is very, very tiny. Forty-nine people fit in that press room.” PeopleKnowsMovingRoomsTvsListeningFitPressesWingsWestFolksTinyNineFortyConferencesInitialsPress ConferencesUptight Author:Reince Priebus
“Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.” KindHelpingBodySituationEconomicChildhoodWorstDesignHigherBenefitsProgramUniversalImpactMajorityFolksDefinitionsEmploymentAfrican AmericanMinimumWagesMinimum WageEarly ChildhoodEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.” IfsBlackPracticeFolksAdministrationApplicationHousingExcluded Author:Barack Obama
“I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.” PeopleIfsThinkingFactsAblePastBeliefRaceRight NowFairsOptimismFolksDisadvantagesHead Start Author:Barack Obama
“As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."” FeelsMindWellsHas BeensArgumentFolksTreatedTreated Unfairly Author:Barack Obama
“It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured. And those are millions of people whose lives are impacted right now.” PeopleTryingYearsFirstsStillsTwoMillionsRight NowJudgmentFolksTwo Years Author:Barack Obama
“I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less an argument about what is practically achievable and sometimes maybe more an argument of "We want society to see what's happened, and internalize it, and answer it in demonstrable ways." And those impulses I very much understand.” ThinkingWayWantSometimesAnswersRaceHappenedProgramArgumentFolksImpulse Author:Barack Obama
“I remember when I was in Chicago and data started coming out that when black folks walk into an auto dealership, and women, too, to some degree, they are automatically given higher quotes, worse deals. And this was just documented extensively across auto dealerships around the country. There was a tax being imposed on black folks. By collecting that data, you can construct policies to combat that.” CountryRememberGivenBlackWalksDealsPolicyHigherTaxesDegreesFolksDataChicagoCombatComing OutConstructsRemember WhenCollecting Author:Barack Obama
“If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.” IfsKnowsYearsLittlesSaidStillsProblemLastsBitsBlackClassLittle BitYears AgoFolksDiscussionHigh Class Author:Barack Obama
“That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.” IfsThinkingWantHas BeensFeltSupportStagePositionConsequenceConstantFolksRight ThingGracious Author:Barack Obama
“That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.” WayCharacterTrumpNewsFolksBarackFoxesSupporterRespondingFox NewsFictional Character Author:Barack Obama
“I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, "[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants, or ...?"” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsLittlesSometimesDoneEnoughProblemCareBitsHurtPoorGayLittle BitFolksDon't CareI Don't CareIf I CouldImmigrantsIt HurtsPoor PeopleGay PeoplePlight Author:Barack Obama
“The tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is indeed possible for a committed, relatively small number of folks across the country to make Congress listen to them and to slow and stop an agenda.” CountryPartyNumbersCongressFolksCommittedScaryTeaAgendasAggressiveNastyPettyTacticsTea PartySmall Numbers Author:Ezra G. Levin
“It is really crucial that folks focus on their own representatives. If you call or write a member who does not represent you, I can tell you that contact is going to be a waste of time. You might as well just talk to yourself in your living room.” IfsWritingWellsDoeI CanMightRoomsFocusMembersWasteFolksContactCrucialWasting TimeRepresentativesLiving Room Author:Ezra G. Levin
“Another crucial thing the tea party did really well is to focus in on the folks who are more or less on your side, and make sure they are as bold as possible.” WellsSidesPartyFocusFolksTeaCrucialTea PartyYour Side Author:Ezra G. Levin
“There are still many homeless trans folk wandering the streets. They are still harassed on the street by bystanders and police officers. We still face many administrative hurdles in every aspect of our lives. If anything, things are actually getting harder for us, because now there are people who are using our visibility as an excuse to say that we are already receiving fair and honest treatment, when the reality is that we are still in bad shape as a community.” PeopleIfsStillsRealityFacesCommunityOur LivesStreetsHonestShapesFairsAspectHarderPoliceFolksExcuseWanderTreatmentOfficersReceivingHomelessTransPolice OfficerHurdleAdministrativeVisibilityBystanders Author:Chelsea Manning
“There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.” StillsPoorLevelsProtectFolksAwfulTrans Author:Chelsea Manning
“Be your kid's collaborative partner, but also be a collaborative partner with the folks at school. Schools can be pretty unilateral too. Show them you know how to collaborate. Show them this is not about power. Let them know detentions and suspensions and paddling don't solve the problems that are affecting kids' lives. Those problems can be identified and solved but not by being punitive.” KnowsShowsProblemKidsSchoolKnow HowFolksSolvePartnersSuspensionDetentionPaddling Author:Ross W. Greene
“I had a chance to talk with President [Vladimir] Putin and he clearly said to me very directly, "I will think about that. I will think about this challenge of how we win." Look, this is not easy for Putin. Everybody says, "Oh, Putin's made a big move." Well, Putin is [in Syria] now; and if he wants to fight ISIL alone, that's a challenge, folks.” IfsThinkingWantWellsLooksMadeSaidBigsMovingFightingWinningEasyPresidentChallengesChanceFolksSyriaPutinIsil Author:John F. Kerry
“The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. That’s bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.” WantLongStillsDoneEnoughHelpingLeftTechnologyFolksCampaignsTwilightConcentratingLeft AloneWork DoneDronesTrollExtrovertsBeavers Author:Kevin Drum
“The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then I went directly to rhythm and blues, which had beautiful voices but not much melody in particular and pretty much the same chord pattern. I loved it, I was entrenched in it, but then folk music came in the middle of that for me, and made its own path. And it was part of the rebellion against bubblegum music, or music that is pretty but doesn't say anything.” MadeBeautifulVoiceWhitePathMiddleParticularFolksPatternsRhythmRebellionMelodyGrantsSay AnythingChordsBeautiful WomenAndrewFolk MusicRhythm And BluesBeautiful Voice Author:Joan Baez
“To see the way that [my mother] held our family together after my dad passed away, and then went to college after my youngest sister went off to school on her own, and mom went and got a college degree in her 60s is just incredibly inspiring. So, I would just say my folks.” WaySchoolTogetherMotherCollegeMomDadDegreesMy DadFolksOur FamilyPassed AwayCollege DegreeFamily TogetherDad Passed Away Author:Mike Pence
“Obama destroyed this party, folks, literally has destroyed the Democratic Party while elevating himself to whatever heights, if he's really achieved them, I still don't believe it, but I'll go along with the flow for now.” IfsBelieveStillsPartyFlowDemocraticDon't BelieveFolksDestroyedHeightDemocratic PartyElevating Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People continually ask me, "Why does the media do what it does? Why are they so obviously self-destructive? Why are they so obviously predictable? Why is the media so obviously biased? Do they not see how other people see?" No, they don't. But then again, they don't care, folks.” PeopleDoeSelfCareAsksMediaFolksDon't CareAsk MeDestructivePredictableBiasedSelf Destructive Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have a better chance of speaking more directly to the white folk they know, because they're less likely to be subject to ridicule. They're insiders, so to speak.” PeopleKnowsBookSpeakChanceWhiteSubjectsTearsBrotherFolksBrothers And SistersRidiculeInsiders Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.” PeopleWayWritingKindWarSometimesCharacterRememberUsedGuyCultureBlackVoiceCommonExpressionHeroOrdinaryPoliceEverydayFolksNewspapersComicRemember WhenPolice BrutalityBrutalityColumnsKoreanIdentificationPopular CultureKorean WarCommon Folk Author:Danny Glover