Politics Quotes ...
"The story of America is a story best seen through the eyes of its people. It is a story built on the idea of freedom, through the common efforts of a nation united. America, now over 200 years old, is a country that is different from all others, in that it offers equal opportunity to anyone, regardless of gender, sexuality or race. It is on this creed that the story of America was founded. Unfortunately, that is all it is. A story." - Boy Sets Fire, "prologue"
"We all come from the same place and we all have something in common; we have seen society and we don't like it." - Boy Sets Fire, "holiday in Cambodia"
"Blacks fear whites, whites fear anyone different, and we all fear that which we do not know, even though, according to many studies, violent crime statistics are down. We keep adding more police and giving those police more and more power." - Boy Sets Fire, "voiceover"
"We are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, history is written from the biased perspective of the power elite. From our birth we are told lies and myths and expected not to only believe them, but to worship them at America's false altar of progress. We must learn to question history and measure each 'fact' on its own merits." - Boy Sets Fire, "the tyranny of what everyone knows"
"Around the world, and in America specifically, we are being subjected to a regularly scheduled program of fear and violence brought to us by a twin attack of the media and politicians who feed our fears on each other." - Boy Sets Fire, "voiceover"
"We are trading our rights for the illusion of safety and in doing so we give the real criminals even more potency." - Boy Sets Fire, "voiceover"
"The rich stay rich, and the poor die of quietly. The power remains the same." - Boy Sets Fire, "the power remains the same"
" I was in the German Club. There were only three of us, and then two of us left to join the French Club after seeing 'Schindler's List.' "- Gilmore Girls
" I feel so rich and suddenly in complete agreement with everything Bush has to say. " - Gilmore Girls
"'do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it -- and have it repeated to us -- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
"The real American is not a gold chaser or money lover, as the legend classes him, but an idealist and a mystic. Not that I mean for a moment to say that the American is without senses. On the contrary, the Anglo-Saxon in general, or the American with some Celtic blood is, when it comes to the crucial moment, more fiery than the Italian, more sensuous than the French, more capable of desperate excesses than are the Russians. But the habit of early training has enclosed his temperament in a wall of iron, frosted over, and these things only come to pass when some extraordinary incident of life breaks through his reserve. Then one might say that the Anglo-Saxon or Celt is of all the nations the most fiery lover." - My Life by Isadora Duncan
"And both sides say they're winning, and both sides know they're losing, and neither one knows what they're fighting for." - Martina McBride, "the uncivil war"
"Everyone understands the nature of war. We also understand that victory depends on the cards that we have been dealt. Some, when faced with a bloody battle, simply give in. But for some, surrender is unacceptable. Even though they know it will be a fight to the death." - Desperate Housewives
"No, being the poster girl for censorship is not a little funny. The only videos not behind that curtain are Bambi and Dumbo. I mean, they actually had a meeting earlier about whether or not Babe should be behind the curtain so as not to offend people who keep kosher! " - Gilmore Girls
"Nothing destroys spirit like poverty. " - Becoming Jane
"I had long since learned that you couldn't lump all people with money into one category. The wealthy were as varied as the downtrodden. Some were hardworking, some lazy. Some self-made, some born with a silver spoon. Some modest and understated, some ostentatious braggarts." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
"I know very well what you represent. You represent the idiocy of today." - Burn After Reading
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"'we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
"And that's okay? It's okay to pull the rug out from under folks as long as it's nobody that you know? It's okay because we're just silly podunk Minnesotans, right? We talk funny and we ice-fish and we scrapbook and we drag Jesus into regular conversation. We're not cool like you, right? So we don't matter." - New in Town
"Lucy Hill: Industrial competition in a free-market economy is what built this country. Ted Mitchell: No, robber barons built this country, and they did it from the blood of working folks. Hell, you steal somebody's car, you get thrown in jail, you steal somebody's life savings, you get to be a CEO." - New in Town
"All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words." - Milk
"I ask this... If there should be an assassination, I would hope that five, ten, one hundred, a thousand would rise. I would like to see every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out - - If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door... And that's all. I ask for the movement to continue. Because it's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power... it's about the 'us's' out there. Not only gays, but the Blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the 'us's.' Without hope, the 'us's' give up - I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. So you, and you, and you... You gotta give 'em hope... you gotta give 'em hope." - Milk
"Your mother and I think that if the American economy can be billions in debt and still survive, so can you." - Confessions of a Shopaholic
"I'm not dwelling on revenge for past atrocities, or looking ahead to what I can gain from a few tax breaks. Drilling oil wells in the ocean, putting up razor wire fences to keep out immigrants who only want what our grandparents wanted. In this world of armchair bloggers who created a generation of critics instead of leaders, I'm actually doing something. Right here, right now, for the city. For my country. And I'm not doing it alone. You're damned right I'm a hero. " - Smallville
"These are difficult times. With heroes being painted as criminals, it's easy to lose hope. But, if we don't speak up now, then when? My father always said, 'Life only asks of you what you can handle.' Sometimes we can't do it on our own, that's why we need to join together in this crusade like a family. So that our united strength shines through the darkness like a beacon, inspiring others to find their voices. None of us is born to hate. We're taught to. That's why we need heroes, to remind us that we are all meant to fight for truth and justice. To take a stand against fear and hate. " - Smallville
"Have you taken a look around you?!? It's always like this! Might makes right! Only the strong survive! Have you learned nothing from the natural world in which you love so much? " - Smallville
"I've been around long enough to know the best way to win a war is to strike first. " - Smallville
"He always uses cliches. He is a politician after all." - Greek
"That's the one thing that trumps religion... capitalism." - Easy A
"This political-correctness thing is out of control. First we say you can't act with prejudice. That's fine. Then we say you can't have prejudices. Now we're saying you can't even talk about somebody else's prejudices! This isn't civil rights, Your Honor. It's censorship." - Ally McBeal
"As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities." - Voltaire
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair
"Education is the investment our generation makes in the future." - Mitt Romney
"I think especially today, if you turn on the television and see the horrors that are happening to people in the world right now, there's no better time to have some kind of hope through imagination, through the ability to close our eyes. It's really a time when you want to close your eyes, but you're not able to. I think it's a time to close your eyes and try to make a change, or at least have hope to make a change, or we're going to explode." - Johnny Depp
"It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives—the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for our country, for us. And all we can do is remember." - Ronald Reagan
"We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget that we create them." - Bernbach
"Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force." - Robert F. Kennedy
