“Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.” PeopleShouldStatesProblemRealityPoliticalPoliticsNatureCommunityLeadershipJusticeAnswersDemocracyFocusFailingSecurityPolicySeriousWeaponsEthicsStrategyClimateHuman RightsExtremesTerrorismNuclearWeatherIdeologyForeign PolicyNuclear WeaponsFloodNational SecurityDiplomacyDisruptionDroughtInstabilityGood QuestionsExtreme WeatherPolitical Instability Author:Van Jones
“The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.” HardRealityAmericaHousePoliticsCommunityWhiteCommonPolicyBlameUnityCongressIdeologyWhite HouseFree SpeechDisdainPartisanship Author:Claire McCaskill
“In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.” PeopleWellsSaidTwoStatesRealityAmericaPoliticalPoliticsPresidentCommunityLeadershipJusticeUnitedPartyHistoryUnited StatesDemocracyIssuesHuman NaturePolicyHealthMonthsMajorsEthicsConstitutionElectionStrategyUnityCampaignsIdeologyVotingSpokesPolitePolitical PartiesCivilityObamacareTwo MonthsDismay2012 ElectionAca Author:John McCain
“There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.” WantYearsRealityMightValuesPoliticsIndividualSoundCommunityJusticeViolencePolicyNewsEthicsHuman RightsHearingTerrorismIdeologyTapeFree SpeechThrillCivilityAudioGunshots Author:Rachel Maddow
“I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.” AsksPoliticsCommunityLeadershipComedyPolicyStrategyAsk MeFey Author:Nancy Pelosi
“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.” MayWarRealityAmericaFatherPoliticsProcessCommunityJusticeHistoryTechnologyDemocracyViolenceGenerationsPolicyCitizensBattleEqualEthicsConstitutionHuman RightsTerrorismDuesArguingTrialsCommitIdeologyEngagedFree SpeechPenaltiesMaximumEqual RightsDeath PenaltyBattlefieldsTreasonDespicableConvictsDue Process Author:Rand Paul
“I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantUseRealityPoliticsTermCommunityWatchesSpeechConstitutionIdeologyFree SpeechFree Market Author:Greta Van Susteren
“I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.” YearsCountryStatesTodayPoliticalPoliticsCommunityUnitedViewsPartyTechnologyUnited StatesDemocracyGenerationsPolicyListeningRepublicanEthicsDemocratHuman RightsIndividualityTerrorismEastIdeologyFree SpeechPolitical PartiesDisobedienceBerlinCivil DisobedienceGridsEast Berlin Author:Jesse Ventura
“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.” MenWayNeedsRealityPoliticsSocialCommunityWorkJusticeMoneyFamilyClassHistoryGenerationsEconomicHuman NaturePolicyEqualEthicsMen And WomenCapitalismStrategyPlanningBest WayTraditionalIdeologyVulnerabilitySexismReverseEqual Rights Author:Stephanie Coontz
“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.” MenStatesHelpingWisdomRealityPoliticsProcessCommunityLeadershipJusticeMoneyRaceEducationMoralFamilyHistorySupportGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyStudentsHigherHusbandEqualBehaviorEthicsStrategyFinancialIndividualitySocial MediaCampaignsIdeologyGrantsAcademicExesLoanEqual RightsPursuedWebsiteScholarshipProfilePartisansHigher EducationPartisanshipStudent LoanWendyHigh ProfileEx HusbandFinancial Support Author:Liza Mundy
“There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.” WantRealityPoliticsCommunityHistoryGenerationsModernPolicyEuropeStrategyRussiaIdeologyTiesContradictionForeign PolicyInherentHistoricUkraineIntegrating Author:Susan Rice
“We're in a political depression - a great political depression” RealityPoliticalPoliticsCommunityPartyHistoryPolitical PartiesGreat Political Author:Chuck Todd
“Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.” ProblemRealityHappensLyingPoliticsCommunityMoneyClassDemocracyPolicyWallTaxesCapitalismTradePropertyHuman RightsIdeologyJailFree SpeechConsumerismFacadePartisanship Author:Cecily McMillan
“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.” LooksEndsRealityFacesChoicesPoliticsWaitingCommunityJusticeMoneyDealsEducationPovertyHistoryGenerationsFrontsHuman NaturePolicyEqualEthicsStrategyPrisonInvestingIdeologyJailTailsEqual RightsInfancyPathologyFood Stamps Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.” RealityRememberFacesMotherPoliticsNamesForceNationsBlackCommunityJusticeFamilyHistoryViolenceGenerationsTearsMomCircumstancesEqualEthicsHuman RightsIdeologyAfrican AmericanTeenagerBrownFree SpeechEqual RightsQuestionableUnarmed Author:Jonathan Capehart
“When I think of people I am close to, I genuinely feel that I can include Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn.” PeopleThinkingFeelsI CanPoliticsCommunityUnitySocial MediaJoshToby Author:Eric Whitacre
“We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.” WantPoliticsCommunityLeadershipJusticeDemocracyViolenceGenerationsPolicyRevolutionEqualStrategyUnityHuman RightsIndividualitySeekingIdeologyForeign PolicyFree SpeechEqual RightsDisobedienceCivil Disobedience Author:Joshua Wong
“Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention "the people," the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset... The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms... The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it "shall not be infringed."” PeopleDoeLawPoliticalPoliticsIndividualTermCommunityExistenceArmsMembersSixConstitutionInstrumentsAmendmentsProvisionSecond AmendmentBearable Author:Antonin Scalia
“There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.” WorldNeedsRealityPoliticsUnderstandingCommunityViolenceGenerationsPolicySpringTerrorismIdeologyAwfulMessExplanationForeign PolicyArab Spring Author:Madeleine Albright
“A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?” ShouldSaidRealityWould BeTodayJobsPoliticalPoliticsCommunityHoursWorkMoneyPartyPovertyHistoryCasesEconomyPolicyCostCapitalismEconomicsDemocratIdeologyReportsMinimumPolitical PartiesMinimum WagePartisanshipForeseen Author:S. E. Cupp
“If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.” PeopleIfsWellsHelpingRealityKidsWantedJobsPoliticsCommunityDifferencesWorkPoorMoneyEducationClassPovertyMiddleCarPolicyStudentsCollegeAmountOffersShotsProgramBiggerMajorityStrategyPropertyPopulationAccessExtrasGuaranteesReliefMiddle ClassPoor PeopleLoanSmall AmountsHelp The PoorStudent LoanHelp Poor People Author:Megan McArdle
“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
“Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.” YearsMadeTwoCountryStatesCulturePoliticsSportsCommunityUnitedUnited StatesEconomicEnormousOur CountryContributionBarriersExileIdeologicalCubanHardenedTwo Countries Author:Barack Obama
“Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.” PeopleStatesTogetherPastPoliticalChoicesPoliticsCommunityChanceGroupsActivityAncientClubsArrangementsAttendingHereditaryLineage Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott
“Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy stands accused of producing division and decline.” PoliticalOrderPoliticsEnergySocialCommunityDemocracyAuthorityUnityPurityDivisionFascismDeclineAccusedSocial OrderLiberal Democracy Author:Robert O. Paxton
“A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.” FormPoliticalPoliticsEnergyGoalCommunityPartyLibertyViolenceBehaviorMassDemocraticUnityCommittedTraditionalPursuePurityInternalsAbandonEthicalCollaborationElitesDeclineExpansionRestraintCultHumiliationObsessivePreoccupationUneasyCleansingVictimhood Book:The Anatomy of Fascism Source: The Anatomy of Fascism