“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.” PeopleIfsWayMatterWould BeFightingLeftSecurityConversationTyrannyAgencyPrivacyCapabilityDictatorNational SecurityTelephonesTelegrams Author:Frank Church
“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.” IfsShouldLittlesEndsLightFallLeftSpeakMissingObjectsConversationBallsDearSpheresPlatesRainbowClayBangsPipeGlitterDriftingJugglingDrifting Off Author:Evelyn Waugh
“we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.” ShouldBelieveAmericaValuesLeftSocialCausesBehindsMoralClassCasesFailingConversationConsequenceTraditionalInequalityRisingRejectsCrucialWorking ClassSoarSocial ChangeLeft BehindTraditional Values Author:Paul Krugman
“People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.” PeopleThinkingProblemPoliticalLeftSidesPolicyHugePersonalityConversationConflictMassAdultsPressesHungerSolveCriticalSignificantStakesStereotypeBoth SidesAisleCritical Mass Author:Hillary Clinton
“Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.” LeftWomenSucceedConversationDisputesTalkersMonologues Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.” PeopleReadingLeftLinesLossMistakeGreaterConversationEndureAddictionDisappointmentBetrayalLoyaltyEndlessMessPetMottoEmbarrassmentSetbackBeamIndecisionBlakeMy MottoPet LossLimboExtensive Reading Author:Anne Lamott