Charlie Pierce Quotes
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Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
Any
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We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures…
Amending
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The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious…
Barney
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If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become…
Any
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For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the…
All
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We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be…
Best
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Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
Almost Everything
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There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and…
All
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In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have…
Been
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The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.
American
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At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
Ball
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The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change…
Change
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As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has…
Barack
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The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large…
Absurdity
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Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered…
Actually Won
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We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we…
American
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It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is…
All
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There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our…
American
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School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical…
Aspects
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The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game…
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