“Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.” WritingTryingHardLyingCoursesHouseGrowsPresidentDealsEnemyEasierRepublicanTruth IsDespairHarderInstanceLuxuryTelling The TruthHardshipCustomsPresident ObamaAccustomedLeaksMeaninglessnessFukushima Author:Tony Kushner
“As Cindy Sheehan was gathering public sympathy as the Gold Star mom against the killing in Iraq, the Republican party decided to import an easier target to pummel. So they brought over the 'I-salute-your-courage, Saddam' religious fundamentalist crack-pot who can't tell us where the money went.” StarsReligiousPartyMomEasierRepublicanDecidedGoldKillingIraqTargetCracksPotRepublican PartySaddamGatheringFundamentalistImportsSaluteCindy Author:Greg Palast
“Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.” LeftPresidentCasesEasierRepublicanDemocraticPushing Author:David Sirota
“It's so much easier to do press if you take positions that the press likes than to take conservative Republican positions.” IfsPositionEasierRepublicanPressesConservativeLikes Author:Ari Fleischer