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“Another grave fault in our election system is that the campaigns are unduly strung out. [Election Administration in the United States, 1934, page 72]” — Joseph P. Harris Copy Share Image
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“And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass.… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
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“Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek military solutions. Terrorism is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“It does not require much historical knowledge (though it may require a certain historical perspective) to see that many, if not all, of the "aristocratic" elements of the Constitution (as in other countries) have gradually disappeared or were washed away during the past two hundred years, while the monarchic powers of the presidency and the democratic extent of majority rule… — John Lukacs Copy Share
“Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public affairs.' Obviously, there is something wanting in the apolitical personality. But we have also come to suspect the idiocy of politicization—of the professional pol and power broker. The two idiocies make a perfect match, with the apathy of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“The American craving for illegal, mind-altering, addictive chemicals provides a steady flow of American capital through the Texas border into Mexico and South America. Basically, the drug traffic is uncontainable as long as its U.S. market exists, but newspapers and other media virtuously trumpet feel-good headlines about "record drug busts" and arrests while the drug trade continues unabated.” — William Earl Maxwell Copy Share
“The owners and top managers of most news media organizations tend to be conservative and Republican. This is hardly surprising. The shareholders and executives of multi-billion-dollar corporations are not very interested in undermining the free enterprise system, for example, income from offended advertisers. These owners and managers ultimately decide which reporters, newscasters, and editors to hire or fire, promote or… — Edward S. Greenberg Copy Share
“Americans expect the president to right the wrongs that plague us—and we blame him when he fails. Because we invest impossible expectations in the presidency, the presidency has become an impossible job. And once the honeymoon period inevitably fades, the modern president becomes a lightning rod for discontent, often catching blame for phenomena beyond the control of any one person,… — Gene Healy Copy Share
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“It’s a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place.” — Paul Ryan Copy Share
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“…My present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States: it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
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“I do not believe that Caucasians of the western world are inherently evil. What I do believe is that the powerful subliminal… — James Morris Robinson Copy Share Image
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“To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share
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