#election

My friends... ↗

— John McCain

#funny #government #presidents #speech #funny

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. ↗

— Claude Pepper

#better #country #election #generation #instead

The Iraqi elections were an important first step. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#first #first step #important #iraqi #step

We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we won't make the cut. ↗

— Moxie Mezcal

#nature

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#nature

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #existence #natural-selection #nature

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#democracy #elections #voters #character

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civil-rights-movement #ethnology #identity-politics #martin-luther-king-jr #perjury

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#elections #fools #government #intelligence #masses