#cian

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#bureaucratic #bureaucrats #centralized #crossroads #define

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact. ↗

— Jim Goad

#biological #caused #exploit #fact #how

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#journalist #learned #politician #probably #ridiculous

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#data #expert #how #i #i think

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks. ↗

— Norman Granz

#does #ellington #leader #movie #musician

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. ↗

— Brian Greene

#bend #classical #classical composers #composers #like

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#before #being #first #gone #had

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#cornered #homosexual #i #market #morticians

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#always #certain #certain degree #degree #going

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot. ↗

— William Randolph Hearst

#become #even #his #job #keep