Groucho Marx Quote – In Politics, Sincerity Is Everything
“In politics, sincerity is everything. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” – Groucho Marx
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote – This Is Anything
“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Read moreGloria Steinem Quote – The Personal Is Political
“We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must be changed anyway if we are to stop producing leaders whose unexamined early lives are then played out on a national and international stage—-Changing the way […]
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Mahatma Gandhi Quote – What Difference Does It Make
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?” – Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote – Necessary Evils
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.” Margaret Mead
Read moreFortney H. “Pete” Stark Quote – Drastic Prison Reforms
“Throw a few chairmen of the board in jail for polluting the air and water, and you’ll see pollution disappear quite rapidly…. You would also probably see some pretty drastic prison reforms.” – Fortney H. “Pete” Stark
Read moreClimate change stirred ancient political turmoil
Climate change may have helped to alter the course of history. A period of extreme and unprecedented cooling in the northern hemisphere 1,500 years ago may have reduced the eastern Roman empire, set the stage for a famine and a devastating pandemic that killed millions, and favored the rise of the Islamic forces that created the Arab empire. The so-called Little […]
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“Politics is just show business for ugly people.” – Jay Leno
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