Quotes of: Obama-campaign Keyword

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

William Howard Taft

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

William Weld

For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.

Barton Gellman

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

Jack Abramoff

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Amelia Earhart

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your...

A Civil Campaign

Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and association. Calling resists polarization by requiring an attitude toward, and action in, socie...

The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is always close to zero, long-term thinking is an alien concept, and even the most massive and ambitious undertakings are moti...

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only 29% of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42% of British women - I used to think, What do you thi...

How to Be a Woman

Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny us. If we don't assert our truth, it may again be relegated to fantasy. But the truth won't go away. It w...

Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse

Maybe what stopped people from voting wasn't a lack of information about the candidates or a feeling that the outcomes of races didn't matter or a sense that a trip to the polls was inconvenient. What if voting wasn't only a political act, but a soci...

The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Preten...

Noam Chomsky

[Father Flynn enters Sister Aloysius' room, looking very nervous] Father Brendan Flynn: [nervously] May I come in? Sister Aloysius Beauvier: [not looking at him] A third party would be required. Father Brendan Flynn: Look, what was Donald's mother do...

Doubt

Harvey Milk: If we had someone in the government who saw things the way we see them, the way the black community has black leaders who look out for their interests... Scott Smith: You're gonna run for Supervisor, is that the idea? Harvey Milk: I coul...

Milk

Scott Smith: [Harvey and Scott are finally sitting down to dinner] Don't say ANYTHING. Harvey Milk: [tucks his napkin under the collar of his shirt, eats a bite] Can I just tell you... Scott Smith: If you say anything, about politics, or the campaign...

Milk

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

The Beauty Myth

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

Carroll Quigley

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Stephen Covey

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

Ron Fournier

Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.

Frank Rich