“Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.” ShouldTryingGovernmentPaySeriousHigherCurrentsOppositionHealthcareCuban Author:Saul Landau
“Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.” MayLittlesEnoughHandsIndividualEasyInterestingAttentionAchieveParticularSeriousTasksEncouragementGood ThingsCurrentsCreditMoodEndlessPessimismTrailsCalumnyImitatorSoon EnoughCalumny Is Book:Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958 Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958
“For the Sanders supporters, there's a thought that the people who are well off are doing really great, and the system is systematically unfair, and that's a very deeply felt and serious objection to the current situation.” PeopleWellsFeltSituationSeriousCurrentsUnfairReally GreatSupporterObjectionsVery DeepCurrent Situation Author:Cass Sunstein
“It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.” MenDifferentLawBlackWhiteCrimeSeriousFolksCurrentsPotApplicationLockedRootedLocked UpObscenity Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“Mr. Obama needs to make a phone call to Ankara and have a serious conversation about why the current government in Turkey isn't going to seal its border, why it doesn't take a stronger position against the Islamic State.” NeedsStatesGovernmentPositionSeriousConversationStrongerPhonesCurrentsBordersIslamicTurkeysSealsPhone CallsIslamic StateAnkara Author:Vijay Prashad
“I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, "OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it," and now it's "Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster."” ThinkingKnowsNeedsSaidProblemPoliticalProcessSeriousDepthCurrentsFasterFrustration Author:Reid Hoffman
“The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.” PeopleKnowsWayCasesForeverSeriousFunctionCurrentsGermanyElsewhereEurozone Author:Tariq Ali