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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched. Almost Everything
• 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
• 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
• The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime. American
• At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes. Ball
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game… All

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