“Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?” PeopleIfsHardHomeWould BeCoursesPoliticsParticularSeriousVoteFellowsBillsMajorityCome UpMeritPrincipalBack Home Author:Will Rogers
“... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.” GivingWisdomJobsPoliticsCompanyEconomyTaxesLaborIncreaseBillsProductivityEmploymentLiberalismOwnershipEmergenciesIncentives Author:Jack Kemp
“Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between our world and Communism, the temptation to imitate totalitarian security methods must be resisted day by day... When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.” WorldWisdomPoliticsIndividualStruggleEconomyRightsGroupsSecurityMethodBillsTemptationCommunismLiberalismSubtleOur WorldHeritageBill Of RightsErode Author:Earl Warren
“It's just like we do over here in America, right? It's amazing that we have presidents over here do the same thing, right? It's amazing that Bill Clinton could do one thing and have sex with his secretary and really get away with it and still be powerful.” StillsAmericaPoliticsSexPresidentPowerfulOne ThingBillsClintonGet AwaySecretaryNorth Korea Author:Dennis Rodman
“What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.” PeopleKnowsChildrenEndsUsedPoliticsCommunityPoorClassTakenTroubleMonthsMirrorsBillsInvestmentUsed To BePoor PeopleSegregationSortingRacial Segregation Author:Barack Obama
“'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?'” KindLongPoliticalPoliticsTermQualityStepsBillsInvestmentReformLong TermRegulationBankingMachinery Author:Barry Ritholtz
“Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.” PeopleSelfShowsEyePoliticalOrderPoliticsPlansPrideDemandBillsStructureDelightEnvyWitDesertInnocenceHis EyesGood TimesScareDeceivingDetachedPsychopathGrandiose Author:Robert D. Hare
“The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.” MindPoliticsRightsTragedyBillsThreatClimateCommunismPatrioticInsightfulRepressionConcealedCloaksSinisterBill Of RightsAnti Communism Author:Adlai Stevenson I
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.” PeopleShouldGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsRightsBillsRefuseCivil RightsPatrioticEntitledBill Of RightsIndividual RightsInferenceCentral Government Author:Thomas Jefferson