“Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.” PeopleThinkingCareLeftSocialIssuesSecuritySocial Security Author:John Podesta
“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.” PeopleIfsWayMatterWould BeFightingLeftSecurityConversationTyrannyAgencyPrivacyCapabilityDictatorNational SecurityTelephonesTelegrams Author:Frank Church
“When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.” ThinkingLongRunningJobsLeftUnitedQualitySecurityMembersWorkersAgendasLong RunsPublic Service Author:Andy Stern
“It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.” GivingYearsIdeasLastsLeftSleepBreakSecurityIllusionBlameGirlfriendLast YearLove RelationshipOpiumSoma Author:Billy Corgan
“Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.” YearsLeftKnownSecurityMethodInvestmentAll TimeCashMathematicianEstatesSalaryEuler Book:Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street Source: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
“Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.” LittlesEnoughFatherLeftEasyLibertySecurityOrdinaryRemainsBetrayedArbitraryEver AfterDungeonsExpired Author:Frances Osborne
“From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.” ChildrenGovernmentLeftPresidentBehindsPlansSecurityCreationDrugMajorsDepartmentPassagesExpansionLeft BehindPresident BushHomelandPrescriptionsMedicarePrescription DrugsHomeland SecurityNo Child Left BehindDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:Chuck Todd
“The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.” StatesCoursesLeftSocialDealsLeaderSecurityPolicyColorKeysCitizensStandardsAreasFairsLaborUnionsDemocratWorkersProtectionActivismImmigrationWelfareRacistVotersSouthernEntitledUnemploymentEasternSocial SecurityQualifiedCompensationRestrictionLeft OutWelfare StateNew DealDraconian Author:David Roediger
“If the Democrats feel they have lost the public's confidence in their stewardship of national security, then the threat of Iran offers a Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, or John Kerry an opportunity to get out front now and pledge support for a united effort - attacking Bush from the right about too tepid a stance rather from the predictable left that we are 'hegemonic' and 'imperialistic' every time we use force abroad.” IfsFeelsUseOpportunityLostLeftForceUnitedEffortSupportSecurityFrontsOffersThreatClintonDemocratIranNational SecurityAttackingStewardshipPledgePredictableDeanStanceJohn Kerry Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put out a report, and he named a number of very destructive people who lectured at colleges and left arson in their wake and did other terrible things. And he mentioned me and he ascribed to me three organizations to which I'd never belonged, and I decided I would do something about this.” PeopleThreeHouseLeftNumbersSecurityCollegeTerribleActivityDecidedOrganizationReportsDestructiveInternalsCommitteesTerrible ThingsCongressmanArson Author:Nat Hentoff
“Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion - issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.” HumansHas BeensImportantFoundLeftSocialIssuesRightsStreetsSecurityMilitaryWallConcernedAbusePoliceWingsLibertarianCampaignsCivil RightsFirmCorporationsVotingActivistSocial SecurityHighwaysRight WingBrethrenTollsRight To VoteCrusadesHuman FreedomSubordination Author:Michael Lind
“[The left] they've got their little security jackets and bubbles they live in, and they don't let anything in that isn't preapproved. These are snowflakes. They're not gonna let anything in that's gonna upset them.” LittlesLeftSecurityUpsetBubblesJacketsSnowflake Author:Rush Limbaugh