“If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.” IfsIdeasPoliticalLeftSocialTownsArchitectureRegimesDictatorModernismPolitical SystemsLeft And RightSocial GoodTotalitarian RegimesClassicism Author:Leon Krier
“I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.” ThinkingPoliticalEmotionalTownsClimateTraumaShockStarting OverFootloose Author:Craig Brewer
“Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast -- give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.” IfsGivingYearsPastPoliticalCoursesNationsStepsCollegeRepublicanSixTownsElectionTreatedPresidentialFortyPropositionsResortsSkisPresidential ElectionGaugesPunditsTruismShotguns Book:Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals Source: Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
“We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.” PoliticalProcessTownsSignificantDimensionsSquares Author:Russ Feingold
“If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.” IfsGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsTownsDrinkingConnectedChasing Author:Barry Goldwater
“I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.” YearsHas BeensFactsPoliticalPoliticsCommunityLeadershipPartyViolenceFashionPolicyEthicsTwentiesTownsSurpriseViolentPolitical PartiesStunningSurprise MePartisanship Author:Barack Obama
“But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.” PeopleThinkingCountryRunningPoliticalNew YorkAccountsTownsPopulationOfficialsAvenues Author:Mark Leibovich
“I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than family, but also to explore my own memory deeper by comparing it to the memories of others who were in my home town during, for example, the political transition from socialism to a nationalistic "democracy" or during the bombings.” PeopleWritingHomePoliticalOpportunityMemoriesMy OwnDemocracyExampleAmountResearchTownsDeeperSocialismCompareTransitionBombingNationalisticHome Town Author:Sasa Stanisic
“The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination almost a year before the next election and really not pay a political price for it, that's a sign that the incentives for politicians in this town to be so sharply partisan have gotten so outta hand that we're weakening ourselves.” YearsMeanFactsHandsAblePoliticalNextPayLeaderExamplePoliticianRepublicanTownsElectionCourtSupremeSupreme CourtIncentivesPartisansNominationsWeakening Author:Barack Obama
“The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use you. And the evidence is clear. Look at all of these groups that have been voting Democrat for 50 years. Take a look at the towns that have been nothing but Democrat, towns and cities, for 30 years, and just take a look at them. The evidence is right there. We got the strong, silent type, and they have been replaced by this pajama-clad kid that the Regime used to sell Obamacare. The pajama kid! The nerd in his pajamas.” YearsLooksHas BeensUseKidsPoliticalUsedTurnsStrongCan DoPartyCitiesClearGroupsWorstTypeEvidenceTownsSellsSilentDemocratVotingOver YouRegimesReplacedWorst ThingsPolitical PartiesNerdObamacarePajamas Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.” EarthPoliticalHumanityTurnsForceNatureLinesMoneyTelevisionDrugCapitalismGoldEssenceArmyTownsGreenLuxuryDesperateToxicTransformedCommodityBricksItemsMansionsArmed ForcesGreen EarthDemoralizedSlagLuxury Items Author:Michael Parenti
“Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.” MenCountryPoliticalSocialViewsUniversalTownsFellowsDeedsEndeavorApprovalGood DeedsFellow ManBannerPropensityHollandGreatest FearGod And Country Book:The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel Source: The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
“Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.” PeopleThinkingLongStatesEnoughHelpingJobsLawPoliticalLostEasyNatureSimpleAnswersResultsPayEnvironmentHigherProveSolutionsConcernedTownsBillsCleanPlantCuresPushingMassiveLastingNutsPollutionEnforcementObsoleteClausesOratory Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.” PeopleBelieveProblemInspirationPoliticalMotivationGamesDemocracyTownsElectionElection Day Author:Ivan Krastev
“The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.” TwoPoliticalDecisionSilenceEnemyAirMinutesTownsVictimTradeSoldierNewspapersMinistersRelyOfficialsTargetPrimeVillagePilotsTwinsTowersUrbanPrime MinisterDeliberateInfrastructureMemorialCiviliansTalibanAir PowerAfghanObituaryTrade OffsTwin TowersMemorial Service Author:Seumas Milne