“The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?” LooksDoeUseRunningGuySportsGoneRichRocksMediaFiguresHeroPoliticianLateRiversPopsSingersGrayVillainSoupMurdererAccustomedBad GuysSpicesGood GuyHumdrumOddballsCelebsPlankton Book:Talking woman Source: Talking woman
“If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.” IfsShowsNightPoliticsMoralGonePoliticianLateAccountabilityHostTalk ShowsClergymenLate Night Author:Craig Ferguson
“Turkey in general became too involved with what is happening in Egypt and in Syria. Some politicians with neo-Ottoman dreams developed this idea of being a major player in the Middle East, which hasn't gone as expected.” IdeasDreamGonePlayerMiddleInvolvedPoliticianMajorsHappeningsEastExpectedMiddle EastSyriaEgyptTurkeysOttomans Author:Elif Safak
“What we have done over the last 40 or 50 years is systematically attacked and weakened the parties, the political machines, the professionals, and insiders, and hacks, and all the tools that they use to get politicians to play well together. And with those gone, you get chaos.” YearsWellsDonePlayUseTogetherLastsPoliticalPartyGonePoliticianToolsMachinesChaosHacksInsiders Author:Jonathan Rauch
“Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being head of state. It has reached the point that 99% of the indigenous women have not gone to school. The indigenous are condemned to live in a situation designed to exterminate them. They receive a pittance of a salary, they neither speak nor write the language, politics dictates their situation. Is this slavery? I don't know what it's called. It is not the same as before because we are in modern times.” KnowsWritingCountryStatesFactsSchoolSpeakLanguageSituationGoneModernPoliticianRacismSlaveryOur CountryIndianAspireIndigenousSalaryModern TimesHead Of State Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.” CoursesGoneFiguresPoliticianOrdinaryAveragePresidencyCharismatic Author:Charles Krauthammer
“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” IfsInspirationalCountryStatesGodAmericaPoliticalReligionPoliticsNationsForgetGonePoliticianAuthorityDisappearChristian InspirationalPresidentialDivinityPatriotismPatrioticProvidencePatriotWithout GodReligious ToleranceAmerican PresidentEncyclopediaAmerican PatrioticUs PresidentReligious IntoleranceReligion And PoliticsChristian HeritageAmerican PatriotismAmerica FreedomPatriotism In AmericaGood PatrioticAmerican FreedomPledge Of AllegianceChristian PatrioticInspirational PatrioticOne Nation Under GodGod And CountryUs PresidentialInspiring PresidentialPatriotic ReligiousMoral DecayPrayer In SchoolBible School Author:Ronald Reagan