#cans

Republicans have never been good at public relations. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#good #never #public #public relations #relations

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans. ↗

— Fred Upton

#ill #means #other #reagan #republican

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#african americans #benefits #currently #daily #depend

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#majority #now #republicans #someone #spending

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. ↗

— Herman Cain

#back #civil #civil rights #civil rights act #co-opted

Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#american #american workers #both #compete #countries

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#banning #feel #fundamental #fundamental right #guns

The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#again #agenda #defend #detailed #expediency

Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans. ↗

— Arthur Caplan

#cans #coca-cola #same