top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second."
Standard
Customized
More
"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Politics is a game where only the strong survive."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But nowadays -- Our weakness for the last few years has been the ineffectiveness of the Opposition. This Labour Party has never had the quality of a fighting Opposition. It has just sucked the life out of Radicalism. It has never had the definite idealism of the Whigs and Liberals. 'Give us more employment and slightly higher pay and be sure of our contentment,' says Labour. 'We're loyal. We know our place. But we don't like being unemployed.' What good is that as Opposition? It's about as much opposition as a mewing cat. We mean more than that. I tell you frankly. Our task, I take it, my task, is to reinstate that practical working Opposition which has always been Old England's alternative line of defence... For the good of all of us..."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied."
Author Name
Personal Development
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Author Name
Personal Development
"All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is essential, because measures which arouse serious resentment are seldom advantageous, whatever merits they may have otherwise.) The power of the politician, in a democracy, depends upon his adopting the opinions which seem right to the average man. It is useless to urge that politicians ought to be high-minded enough to advocate what enlightened opinion considers good, because if they do they are swept aside for others."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree."
College
"We can fight Big Industry."
Fight
"If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination."
Politics
"One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so."
Purpose
"So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues."
Opportunity
"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."
Fire
"The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime."
Death
"Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have."
Change
"Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to."
Opportunity
"No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education."
Education
bottom of page