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Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly. ~ Tariq Ali
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Tariq Ali
Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that? ~ Christopher Hitchens
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Christopher Hitchens
I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. ~ Christopher Hitchens
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Christopher Hitchens
For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black. ~ Christopher Hitchens
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Christopher Hitchens
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars - they would think the country has gone insane. ~ Noam Chomsky
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Noam Chomsky
If the USA doesn't start learning how to put personal egos aside for the sustainability of a nation, then these "mighty" United States will be no better than the politically divided commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Where progress is slowed because each party thinks any idea from the other party must be stupid or without validity and Independence has become a distant dream squashed by corruption. I suggest politicians go back to kindergarten to learn the basics in decent humanity. The notions of sharing and respect obviously didn't stick the first time. ~ Cristina Marrero
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Cristina Marrero
And I get angry. Because we've tried so hard. Ninety-six percent of Black women tried so hard in voting against him. And not only did this country not elect Clinton, it elected a person who publicly supported sexual assault, a man one accused of rape by his daughter Ivanka's mother. I am angry with the Democratic Party for not knowing that there could have been and should have been a better candidate and angry that a better campaign -- a campaign that honored the journey, that included community in real and transformative ways -- was not launched. I am angry I didn't realize -- or accept on a cellular level -- how wedded to racism and misogyny average Americans are. I am angry at my own naiveté. Our own naiveté. There was a real and substantive difference between these two candidates and we didn't take that seriously enough. ~ Patrisse Khan-Cullors
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
This may seem confusing considering the "swing to the right" this country has taken, but raunch culture transcends elections. The values people vote for are not necessarily the same values they live by. No region of the United States has a higher divorce rate than the Bible Belt. ~ Ariel Levy
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Ariel Levy
Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE. ~ Stephen Colbert
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Stephen Colbert
The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections. ~ Kathleen Troia McFarland
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Kathleen Troia McFarland
Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects. ~ Noam Chomsky
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Noam Chomsky
My father once told me that American democracy is a people's democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system is more fragile than we know. To sustain it, we must always cherish the ideals on which it was founded, remain vigilant against the dark forces that threaten it, and actively engage in the process of making it work. ~ George Takei
United States Elections 2008 quotes by George Takei
In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time. ~ George Clooney
United States Elections 2008 quotes by George Clooney
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else. ~ Kevin Spacey
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Kevin Spacey
I have come to call this shadow government the Deep State...a hybrid association of key elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States with only limited reference to the consent of the governed as normally expressed through elections ~ Mike Lofgren
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Mike Lofgren
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
[Shrub Flubs His Dub, The Nation, June 18, 2001] ~ Molly Ivins
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Molly Ivins
In the United States [ ... ] the two main business-dominated parties, with the support of the corporate community, have refused to reform laws that make it virtually impossible to create new political parties (that might appeal to non-business interests) and let them be effective. Although there is marked and frequently observed dissatisfaction with the Republicans and Democrats, electoral politics is one area where notions of competitions and free choice have little meaning. In some respects the caliber of debate and choice in neoliberal elections tends to be closer to that of the one-party communist state than that of a genuine democracy. ~ Robert W. McChesney
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Robert W. McChesney
They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally? ~ Allen Ginsberg
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Allen Ginsberg
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is. ~ Glenn Greenwald
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Glenn Greenwald
A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against their will, instead of by fraud and against the will of all the rest of us, as now...

...that the names of all the men eligible in each assembly district be put into a hat (or, if no hat can be found that is large enough, into a bathtub), and that a blind moron, preferably of tender years, be delegated to draw out one...

The advantages that this system would offer are so vast and obvious that I hesitate to venture into the banality of rehearsing them. It would in the first place, save the commonwealth the present excessive cost of elections, and make political campaigns unnecessary. It would in the second place, get rid of all the heart-burnings that now flow out of every contest at the polls, and block the reprisals and charges of fraud that now issue from the heart-burnings. It would, in the third place, fill all the State Legislatures with men of a peculiar and unprecedented cast of mind – men actually convinced that public service is a public burden, and not merely a private snap. And it would, in the fourth and most important place, completely dispose of the present degrading knee-bending and trading in votes, for nine-tenths of the legislators, hav ~ H.L. Mencken
United States Elections 2008 quotes by H.L. Mencken
Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists. ~ Stephen Colbert
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Stephen Colbert
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them
and it won't be you; you can't afford them. ~ Juan Cole
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Juan Cole
A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs. ~ Richard Castle
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Richard Castle
The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe ~ Daniel Hannan
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Daniel Hannan
From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States. ~ Robert Dallek
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Robert Dallek
While it is not likely that Democrats will start winning statewide elections tomorrow in Alabama, South Carolina, Kansas, Wyoming, or Utah, they will never win if they don't plant a flag and start organizing. My own state of Vermont is a good example. Forty-five years ago, Vermont was one of the most Republican states in the country. Today, as a result of a lot of hard work by many people, it is one of the most progressive. It ~ Bernie Sanders
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Bernie Sanders
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. ~ Richard Hofstadter
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Richard Hofstadter
The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would have been by bad monetary policy. ~ Milton Friedman
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Milton Friedman
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect. ~ Jeff Goodell
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Jeff Goodell
When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides. ~ Michele Bachmann
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Michele Bachmann
The authors pointed out that nearly all research in psychology is conducted on a very small subset of the human population: people from cultures that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD). They then reviewed dozens of studies showing that WEIRD people are statistical outliers; they are the least typical, least representative people you could study if you want to make generalizations about human nature. Even within the West, Americans are more extreme outliers than Europeans, and within the United States, the educated upper middle class (like my Penn sample) is the most unusual of all. ~ Jonathan Haidt
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Jonathan Haidt
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union. ~ Abraham Lincoln
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Abraham Lincoln
If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax. ~ Salmon P. Chase
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Salmon P. Chase
Let's think back for a moment to the boring sermon. Sometimes the sermon we hear is boring because it went on for too long (or it was not long enough) to engage the listeners. One of the most culturally sensitive areas of human life is this area of time. What various people and cultures consider "late" and "too long" varies widely. In the United States, African-American and Hispanic Christians have services in which singing, prayer, and preaching go on at least 50 percent longer than the attention spans and comfort zones of most Anglo people. Anyone who leads worship services will, then, unavoidably be contextualizing toward some people and away from others. ~ Timothy Keller
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Timothy Keller
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left. ~ Elliott Abrams
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Elliott Abrams
Indeed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculated that 65 million people in the United States now have a sexually transmitted virus, and they will suffer from it for the rest of their lives. ~ James C. Dobson
United States Elections 2008 quotes by James C. Dobson
In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain. ~ Chris Cornell
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Chris Cornell
I've set a clear doctrine: America makes no distinction between the terrorists and the countries that harbor them. If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorists, and you're an enemy of the United States of America. ~ George W. Bush
United States Elections 2008 quotes by George W. Bush
Between the otaku and Japan lies the United States. ~ Hiroki Azuma
United States Elections 2008 quotes by Hiroki Azuma
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