“There had been a proposed plank for the platform that said the Republican Party believed the United States should support Ukraine in any way that we could up to and including providing them weapons, so they could fight off Russian incursions into Ukraine.That was the proposed plank in the Republican Party platform. The [Donald] Trump folks didn`t care about anything else.” WayShouldSaidStatesCareFightingUnitedPartyUnited StatesSupportTrumpRepublicanWeaponsIncludingFolksPlatformsProvidingRepublican PartyUkraine Author:Rachel Maddow
“Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's not necessarily their rap.” ImportantIncludingMy FavoriteRap Author:Elif Batuman
“In my own experience, including when I ask for advice, I would ask a collaborator, a friend, I also like to hear the opinion of a woman because they have such wealth. They look at things in a different way.” WayLooksDifferentAsksWealthMy OwnOpinionAdviceIncludingDifferent WaysCollaborators Author:Pope Francis
“If you are for a long time at the top you've basically achieved everything you wanted to. Then the ball's breaking stuff starts to be too much: it's not what you do in the car, it's what you do outside the car - the press conferences, the interviews, the sponsorship commitments, the marketing appearances - that sadly go up to a level that the whole package, including the risks you take, the workload you do to get the car to work and for you to be quick in the races, it becomes too much.” IfsLongWholeWantedStuffLevelsRaceToo MuchRiskCarLong TimeCommitmentBallsPressesIncludingMarketingAppearanceInterviewsConferencesPackagesPress ConferencesSponsorshipWorkload Author:Niki Lauda
“Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy, including the private banks, will be much more efficient, productive and even democratic if they are left to themselves: in other words, the criticism of the Fed really reflects a desire to cripple the government in the service of increasing the power and authority of the market.” IfsWantGovernmentDesireBeliefLeftEconomyAuthorityCriticismDemocraticIncludingProductiveFedsEfficientDistrustCripples Author:Gerald Epstein
“To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually be a place that was welcoming for everyone that was here, including dealing with the history of slavery and the kind of oppression this country is based on, that's an amazing moment to begin to find your own political ideals.” BelieveKindCountryMomentsAmericaPoliticalRaceIdealsSlaveryIncludingWelcomeOppressionRace In America Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent roughly as they are while massively reducing the burdens presently imposed upon the poor. This sounds like magic. But it really works because the current system is not Pareto efficient. It's a system that generates hundreds of billions of dollars in litigation costs and deadweight losses that HIF-registered medicines would sidestep. By avoiding these losses, the HIF reform can bring improvements all around - including for pharmaceutical innovators.” ThinkingSoundLossPoorMagicCostBenefitsInnovationImpactDollarsMedicineIncludingCurrentsBurdenBillionsImprovementReformFundMechanismEfficientAvoidingWeight LossReducingInnovatorsAffluentPharmaceutical Author:Thomas Pogge
“God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an escape from the present world but rather its transformation, already in the present (starting with Jesus' resurrection) and in the ultimate future (the new heaven and earth including our own resurrection).” WorldEarthSpiritJesusHeavenUltimateTransformationIncludingStartingKingdomsResurrectionHeaven And EarthJesus Resurrection Author:N. T. Wright
“The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated the potential of a nation that has lived under an iron handed blockade and permanent aggression including state sponsored terrorism and yet has survived. In the new circumstances we have the absolute conviction that we will move forward even more than we already have.” PeopleStatesAmericaMovingNationsMiddleCenturyPositionCircumstancesAbsolutesIncludingInternationalConvictionTerrorismMoving ForwardPermanentIronAggressionDefeatedSolidaritySurvived21st CenturyCubanBlockades Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“If we are going to talk about the most recent of the "Indignados" movements in several countries of the world, including Europe, those are social movements but eventually they will evolve into political movements. This will happen because the traditional bourgeois parties have lost credibility after being the main political influence in most countries of Latin-America and Europe in the last 50 or 60 years.” IfsWorldYearsCountryHappensLastsAmericaPoliticalLostSocialPartyInfluenceMovementEuropeIncludingTraditionalEvolveLatinCredibilityBourgeoisLatin AmericaSocial MovementsPolitical MovementsCountries Of The WorldPolitical Influence Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon and later on Secretary of State. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing relations between the U.S. and China. At the same time that he was doing that he was also encouraging all sorts of covert actions against Cuba including political assassinations. This contradiction is one that is hard to understand.” HardStatesActionPoliticalPresidentKnownRolesCasesSecurityRelationIncludingChinaContradictionPrizeScholarSecretaryNational SecurityCubaNobelAssassinationAdvisorsCovertNobel Peace PrizeKissingerHenry KissingerPresident Nixon Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.” PeopleNeedsWholeAmericaGrowthVisionDemocracySawsGroupsSourcePerspectiveEuropeIncludingAncientImprovementRevolutionaryTrendsConquestGreeceMedievalBourgeoisNew PerspectiveAncient GreeceMayansMedieval EuropeIncas Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must be eliminated. You may think that there are no direct elections in Cuba. I am going to tell that they are direct and you can compare our process with any other country including the United States.” ThinkingMayImportantCountryStatesPoliticalProcessUnitedUnited StatesDirectElectionIncludingCompareAlliesOther CountriesImperialismCubaStigmaPolitical SystemsCubanAmerican Imperialism Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term we use. Several blocks of neighborhoods that live in the same area gather in assemblies that are stipulated by law. In those assemblies the people choose freely among themselves who will represent them. The criteria takes into account the candidates characteristics, including if they are hardworking, If they are good people, if they have a clean past, and money has no bearing on who is nominated.” PeopleIfsFirstsStatesUsePastLawTermCitiesCitizensAreasAccountsElectionCleanMeetingsIncludingBlockCharacteristicsCandidatesNeighborhoodDivisionGood PeopleCriteriaCubaAssemblyHardworking Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Establishing proper economic governance that allows the Eurozone to undertake the integration it needs whilst protecting the interests of the single market for all 28, the rights of member states who are not in the Euro - including of course the UK - is really important for the future of the European Union.” NeedsImportantStatesCoursesInterestRightsEconomicMembersUnionsIncludingIntegrationGovernanceEuropean UnionEuroEurozone Author:George Osborne
“Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground.” ThinkingShouldLongUseGoalTermNaturalCompanyHeardInfluenceDevelopmentAccountsIncludingLong TermAccountingIntegratingSustainable DevelopmentAccountants Author:Kofi Annan
“Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.” ChallengesIntegrityElectionWestIncluding Author:Kofi Annan
“I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.” PeopleThinkingMadeSaidCareLastsHousePresidentTalkingLeaderMillionsProgressRiskMembersGainsTwentiesElectionMajorityRateIncludingCongressHealth CareAgendasStakesSenateSpeakersPrincipalLowestMajority Leader Author:Barack Obama
“I think Republicans now are recognizing that [Obamacare cancellation] may not be what the American people, including even [Donald] Trump voters, are looking for. And my hope is that the president-elect, members of Congress from both parties look at, "Where have we objectively made progress, where things are working better?" Don't undo things just because I did them. I don't have pride of authorship.” PeopleThinkingLooksMayMadePresidentPartyProgressPrideTrumpRepublicanMembersIncludingCongressVotersRecognizingObamacareAuthorshipCancellation Author:Barack Obama
“I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, "Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does."” IfsYearsFirstsDoeSaidCareCan DoRepublicanOkaySevenIncludingHealth CareEmsHealthcareSeven YearsSkepticalSomething BetterObamacareCan Do Something Author:Barack Obama
“But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's multiple reaffirmations of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning - gets airbrushed out of the picture.” MeanPurposeJudgingIncludingPlanningPhrasesAppropriateMultiplePopeFiltersRippedOf ContextFamily Planning Author:George Weigel
“There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human environment (which includes the moral imperative of a culturally affirmed and legally recognized right to life from conception until natural death). So what happens? A low-ranking Vatican official for self-promotion gives an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that this is a global-warming encyclical - which he couldn't possibly have known, as the document wasn't drafted yet.” GivingHumansSelfHappensNaturalKnownMoralEnvironmentLowsClaimsIncludingOfficialsInterviewsGlobal WarmingConceptionDocumentsPopePreparingGuardianPromotionImperativesRankingRight To LifeTropesSelf PromotionNatural Death Author:George Weigel
“No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something to teach all of us - including German theologian-bishops - about the truth of the Gospel and the mysteries of the Kingdom of God.” ShouldPoorTeachDoubtMysteryIncludingKingdomsTestamentTheologianKingdom Of GodNew TestamentBishopsPiousMarginalized Author:George Weigel
“The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a privilege denied to everyone else, even including nonprofit organizations? None! My contention is that with the churches exempted from property taxation, you and I have to pay that much more in taxes to make up for what they're not contributing.” EnjoyChurchPayTaxesOrganizationPropertyRoseIncludingPrivilegeIncomeHeavenlyDeniedTaxationContributingContentionNonprofits Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“You don't need a marriage license to live with someone, to have the security of a home, to rear any number of children, to have years of companionship; it's not illegal, but the moment you want to screw somebody, you have to get a license from the state to use your genital organs -or run the risk of being charged with any number of crimes carrying sentences up to and including death. So sex is really the only sensible reason for getting married.” WantNeedsYearsChildrenStatesReasonMomentsUseHomeRunningSexNumbersRiskSecurityCrimeMarriedIncludingSentencesIllegalSensibleOrgansCompanionshipScrewsLicenseGetting Married Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I think if you come out to California trying to be an actor, it's pretty hard. There's desperation. A lot of people are desperate, and a lot of people are clueless, including me. It's hard to try to figure it out. I've never told you, but I have head shots that if you saw them... they're so terrible! It's so embarrassing.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingHardActorsSawsFiguresTerribleShotsIncludingCaliforniaDesperateDesperationEmbarrassingClueless Author:Zach Galifianakis
“I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'” ThinkingLooksArtistPaintingMastersOriginalsIncludingLeapGreat ArtGreat ArtistBeing An ArtistPow Author:James Rosenquist
“If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make these actually-existing people, including the actually-existing person with my name, into a believable person on the page. And that requires distance. That requires not being right up against the events you're talking about.” PeopleIfsWantWritingPersonsStoriesNamesTalkingNovelEventsPagesDrawsDistanceIncludingBelievable Author:Salman Rushdie
“The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious ego, which then transforms the outer stimuli into a psychological experience.” WorldSelfBodyRealityEgoConsciousIncludingPsychologicalProductiveStimulusReceiverOuter Worlds Author:Albert Hofmann
“To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.” ThinkingRealityTodayPoliticalSidesGoalSpaceFictionPlanetsDiversityScientistScience FictionIncludingInternationalShipsStationsInventorAmazing ThingsDiplomatsTechniciansSpacecraftInternational Space Station Author:George Takei
“"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not including my mother or Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in that." She said, "You are very intelligent and you're very kind, and those two qualities do not often go together." Then she went across the street and got in her car, and I went the other way down to the streetcar. I thought, "Suppose she's right. She's intelligent - and she's too mean to lie." You see, a parent has the chance - and maybe the responsibility - to liberate her child. And my mom had liberated me when I was 17.” ThinkingKnowsWayKindMeanChildrenSaidTwoTogetherLyingMotherParentChanceQualityResponsibilityStreetsCarBabyMomMetsIntelligentIncludingMy MomLiberatedEleanor Author:Maya Angelou
“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.” WorldTryingAttitudePositive ThinkingColorIncludingBoxesPositivityGrayBleakCrayonBright ColorsPositive Attitude Images Author:Allen Klein
“All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.” StillsOvercomingAddictionIncludingMoodDisorderComponentsSufferersOcdAdhdMood Disorders Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.” ThinkingCertainFunOkayIncluding Author:Mila Kunis
“If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.” PeopleIfsTryingLooksSelfBodyChoicesLevelsFocusOur LivesSelf EsteemGoes OnIncludingEsteemGet BetterTime Goes On Author:Queen Latifah
“Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.” PeopleMeanEarthSportsTechnologyFashionIncludingPassionateGamingNerdyIncluding Everyone Author:Zachary Levi
“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.” AgeTimeDarkSocietyAngerIncludingDark Ages Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they'll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.” WantPersonsIncluding Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.” StillsProblemEnergyLossEnvironmentClimateClimate ChangeIncludingDespiteRangeFuelGlobal WarmingDependenceThreatenedFossilsOur EnvironmentFossil FuelBiodiversityBurning Fossil FuelsEnvironmental Change Author:Dan Lipinski
“Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.” Has BeensForceMusicianJazzIncludingPerformersComposerClassical Composers Author:Yo-Yo Ma
“We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.” GovernmentNaturePoorPowerfulEnvironmentResponsibleBlameIncludingAffectionDestroyingNatural EnvironmentDestroying The Environment Author:Wangari Maathai
“I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.” PeopleCountryEnemyStruggleIncludingYesterdayTerroristLiberationJail Author:Nelson Mandela
“I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.” YearsDoneShowsFilmTelevisionCoupleHollywoodOriginalsIncludingFeaturesStaff80sAdaptation Author:George R. R. Martin
“Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.” NeedsHumansSelfRealityMotivationValuesAcceptingEconomicTheoryHigherHighestIncludingImpulseClassicInadequateSelf ActualizationHuman NeedsActualizationEconomic TheoryPeak Experiences Author:Abraham Maslow
“American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.” ProblemFunnyAmericaProductsHumorousIncludingFatsConsumersCulinaryNo Problem Author:Dave Barry
“Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.” LooksFacesTurnsRoomsClothesFaultsIncludingSaintKitchenExpensiveCollectionsThrownGrotesqueCoutureKitchen Sinks Author:Alexander McQueen
“If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.” IfsGivingShouldBelieveChristianDemocracyCapitalismFairsPaidIncludingEmployeePregnancyCapitalistPieDental Author:Michael Moore
“U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.” ImportantFacesQualityProductsSafeTradeIncludingRestrictionBeefHigh QualityMontana Author:Max Baucus
“I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.” HappensJobsOffersDirectorsIncludingAvailableHopefullySomedayGood DirectorsDanish Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.” ThinkingGivingTryingCharacterStoriesBeautifulFilmFacesChanceActingHellHonestSeriousDecidedIncludingScriptsCommittedLovelyInsecurity Author:Emily Mortimer