#dent

On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#attacked #been #believe #between #decision

I was a very confident little kid. ↗

— Tina Fey

#i #kid #little #little kid #very

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack obama #behalf #brutish #building #campaign

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#before #decision #driven #economic #grim

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#another #bootstraps #casting #community #connected

The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#independents #liberty #much #net #obama

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#factors #human #human societies #independent #innovation

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#beginning #bill #bill clinton #clinton #defined

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#constitutes #culture #disposition #independent #innate

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#did #discovered #ever #godless #incidentally