"We create our own government. We are responsible……" — Charlie Pierce
"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 and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects."
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27 Quotes by Charlie Pierce
Charlie Pierce has 27 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with…
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For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have…
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We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that…
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Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
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There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized…
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In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history…
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The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved…
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At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
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The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes…
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As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use…
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More Amending Quotes
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one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
— Huineng
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a…
— William Blackstone
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First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like…
— Confucius
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One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive…
— Adrian Cronauer
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The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
— Matt Ridley
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If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.
— Jim Rohn
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I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination…
— Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the…
— John Anderson
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I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends.…
— Brendan Fraser
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug…
— Jimmy Carter
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