“The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.” ProblemGovernmentChallengesIraqPresidentialCandidatesHealthcareOfferingAmerican PoliticsPrescriptionsPresidential Candidate Author:Larry Sabato
“Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWritingFirstsCountryReasonGovernmentLawSpeakWishCausesPartyPayLibertyDegreesWorshipDoctrineCommandCandidatesAmendmentsCompellingFirst Amendment Author:Hugo Black
“It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.” IfsShouldEnoughGovernmentCommonCommon SenseCandidatesTaxpayersAccommodate Author:Anthony Weiner
“The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.” GovernmentPoliticalWinningGroupsBest ThingsCandidates Author:Will Rogers
“We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.” KnowsWorldWarGovernmentAmericaSourceAround The WorldBarackCandidatesDivisionAnti War Author:Rick Santorum
“I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.” ThinkingShouldGovernmentDecisionCandidatesFederal GovernmentMaking Decisions Author:Rick Santorum
“When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.” ThinkingGovernmentCarePoliticalTalkingPerspectiveCapacityElectionObviousSpendingTinyPresidentialCandidatesFundRelativeFractionsPresidential CandidatePolitical Election Author:Lawrence Lessig