“A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.' My fellow Americans: We can debate policies and programs, but in the end what separates the two parties in this election campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves.” IfsMenSaidTwoEndsUsePoliticalGivenPartyWisePolicyStrangeProgramElectionFellowsCampaignsDebatePolitical PartiesWise Man Once SaidGifts Of LifeJealously Author:Geraldine Ferraro
“The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.” Has BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesMassProgramMajorityCaughtDuesCampaignsTerroristSquaresSurveillanceEspionageTerrorist AttacksCyberBombersVendorsTimes Square Author:Edward Snowden
“When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the 'fantastic' get-out-the-vote program... some of this borders on RICO violations.” TwoEndsPoliticalCompanyMillionsRepublicanDirectorsProgramVoteCampaignsChiefsFantasticBordersStaffCommitteesRomneyViolationRicoChief Of Staff Author:Patrick Caddell
“Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.” DoeEnergyProgramGreenCampaignsFundLendingPorkContributorsScamsGreen EnergySlush Author:Dick Morris
“If my wife hears one more report that I'm joining Hillary's campaign I'm going to have to go in the Pundit Protection Program.” IfsWifeProgramMy WifeProtectionCampaignsReportsJoiningPundits Author:Paul Begala
“A recent analysis of election coverage by the Tindall report which tracks network nicely news programs found that Bernie Sanders received just ten minutes out of 857 minutes of campaign coverage in 2015. Compare that to 234 minutes for Donald Trump, and 113 for Hillary Clinton.” FoundMinutesTrumpTenNewsProgramElectionClintonTrackCampaignsCompareAnalysisReportsCoverage Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“That is certainly the promise of [Donald Trump] campaign and the promise of his economic program.This economic program is really the pickup truck of economic programs. It's the Ford F-150 of economic programs. It's about manufacturing. It's about oil, fossil fuels. It's a deliberate, forceful reassertion of an image of American industrialism that we have inherited from the 20th century.” EconomicCenturyTrumpPromiseProgramOilCampaignsFuel20th CenturyFossilsTruckDeliberateManufacturingFossil FuelPickupsPickup Trucks Author:Judy Woodruff
“The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.” KnowsBodyActionCompanyMilitaryProgramCongressEightDefenseCampaignsCorporationsChairsBuriedGangDonationContractorCovert Author:Edward Snowden
“Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama on Guantánamo, the surveillance programs and investigating the crimes of the Bush administration. These were very serious campaign promises that were not fulfilled.” RunningPresidentHappenedCrimeSeriousPromiseProgramElectionCampaignsAdministrationBarackCandidatesFulfilledSurveillancePresident Barack ObamaInvestigating Author:Edward Snowden
“They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.” WantKindHumorGovernmentPoliticalSocialSecurityProgramCampaignsFederal GovernmentSocial SecurityBushismFunny Bush Author:George W. Bush