All Entries in the "Quotes" Category
Eisenhower: Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Labor
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Garrison Keiler: Christian’s
“Going to church no more makes you a Christian
than sleeping in your garage makes you a car.”
~~ Garrison Keiler
Cheney to Treasury: “Deficits don’t matter”
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill was told “deficits don’t matter” when he warned of a looming fiscal crisis.
O’Neill, fired in a shakeup of Bush’s economic team in December 2002, raised objections to a new round of tax cuts and said the president balked at his more aggressive plan to combat corporate crime after a string of accounting scandals because of opposition from “the corporate crowd,” a key constituency.
O’Neill said he tried to warn Vice President Dick Cheney that growing budget deficits-expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year alone-posed a threat to the economy. Cheney cut him off. “You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don’t matter,” he said, according to excerpts. Cheney continued: “We won the midterms (congressional elections). This is our due.” A month later, Cheney told the Treasury secretary he was fired.
The vice president’s office had no immediate comment, but John Snow, who replaced O’Neill, insisted that deficits “do matter” to the administration.
Source: [X-ref O'Neill] Adam Entous, Reuters, on AOL News Jan 11, 2004
Full Story: Dick Cheney on Budget & Economy.
Paul Krugman
THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK LAST YEAR ABOUT HOW BARACK OBAMA WOULD BE A “TRANSFORMATIONAL” PRESIDENT – BUT TRUE TRANSFORMATION, IT TURNS OUT, REQUIRES A LOT MORE THAN ELECTING ONE TELEGENIC LEADER. ACTUALLY TURNING THIS COUNTRY AROUND IS GOING TO TAKE YEARS OF SIEGE WARFARE AGAINST DEEPLY ENTRENCHED INTERESTS, DEFENDING A DEEPLY DYSFUNCTIONAL POLITICAL SYSTEM.
PAUL KRUGMAN, “MISSING RICHARD NIXON,” THE NEW YORK TIMES, AUGUST 30, 2009
Dwight Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life…. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
–Dwight Eisenhower, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953
Immanuel Kant
“The single most important quality needed to resist evil is moral autonomy. Moral autonomy is possible only through reflection, self-determination and the courage not to cooperate.”
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German philosopher
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
“Certain hierarchs of the Catholic Church in Latin America used prayer as an anesthesia to put the people to sleep. When they cannot dominate us with law, then comes prayer, and when they can’t humiliate or dominate us with prayer, then comes the gun.”
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia (July 13, 2009)
Frederic Bastiat
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), French economist
Edward Bernays
“Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of… In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”
-Edward Bernays-
For more on Edward Bernays watch this BBC documentary:
The Century of the Self
Quotes: Truman
Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican,
people will vote for the real Republican all the time
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“If conservatives get to call universal health care
“socialized medicine”…
I get to call private, for profit health care,
soulless vampire bastards,
making money off of human pain.”
- Bill Maher 7.24.09
Quote: Realists and Fantasists
“The point is that we need to be clear about who are the realists and who are the fantasists here. The realists are actually the climate activists, who understand that if you give people in a market economy the right incentives they will make big changes in their energy use and environmental impact. The fantasists are the burn-baby-burn crowd who hate the idea of using government for good, and therefore insist that doing the right thing is economically impossible.”
–Paul Krugman, New York Times, June 22, 2009
Winner of Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2008
Quote for the Day
“If you want to be the slaves of banks
and pay the cost of your own slavery,
then let the banks create money…”
Josiah Stamp, Governor of the Bank of England 1920
Quote of the Day
“Inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our government.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Money is power.
Why should power be able to be inherited?
And how could anyone say that inheriting power is part of the American Dream?
Don’t let our politicians repeal the Estate Tax.
post on DU by: ck4829
Today’s Quote
You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour,
and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders
- Jessie Ventura
Quote of the Day
“… it’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.“
- Noam Chomsky
Quote of the Day
My definition of a free society
is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Quote of the Day
“I’m a loyal Democrat. I support your agenda.”
Sen. Arlen Specter to President Obama
Tuesday April 28, 2009
I did not say I am a loyal Democrat.
Sen. Arlen Specter to David Gegory
Sunday May 3, 2009
OPS: Another Faustian deal?
Quote of the Day
You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes
because that’s where the fruit is.
Will Rogers
Quote of the Day
Defending torture by pointing to its effectiveness
is like saying Bank Robbery is an effective way to withdraw cash from the bank.
- Johnathon Turley
PS: Turley is the one who should replace Souter
quote Menchen
Nobody ever went broke
underestimating the intelligence of the American public
-H. L. Mencken
Quote of the Day
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate;
now what’s going to happen to us
with both a Senate and a House?
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Democrats never agree on anything, that’s why they’re Democrats.
If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
Will Rogers
Quotes of the Day
“VP Cheney Frightens Easily. He Lives on Fear”
- Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Ret.
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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared,
and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quote of the Day
Real wealth doesn’t come from repackaging financial instruments like mortgage debts
It comes from making things.
- Dan Dimicco,
CEO Of Charlotte-based steelmaker Nucor
Quote of the Day
If a German surrenders, he is to be treated with respect as a prisoner of war, the same treatment you would hope to get as a prisoner if you are unlucky enough to be captured by the enemy. Americans are not savages. Americans do not kick people in the face if they have been knocked down.
Quote of the Day
Our fears are like dragons
guarding our most precious treasures
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Earth Day
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
- Chief Seattle, 1855
Quote of the Day
“I wouldn’t have thought the economy was as vulnerable,” …
“I wouldn’t have thought that banking deregulation was dangerous.”
– Judge Richard A. Posner
federal appeals court judge who has been called the most cited legal scholar of all time
Quote of the Day
“It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
- Henry Ford*
* He was correct about banking, but let’s not forget that Ford was an anti-semitic Nazi supporter
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Quote of the Day
If you can keep stimulating the irrational self,
then leadership can basically go on doing what it wants to do
- Edward Bernays Sigmund Freud’s nephew
…one of the fathers of the field of public relations. Bernays was one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using the subconscious. He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous
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Olbermann: Future of U.S. depends on torture accountability
Special Comment: 
U.S. future depends on torture accountability
Olbermann: We cannot let mistakes of the past haunt our future
By Keith Olbermann
As promised, a Special Comment now on the president’s revelation of the remainder of this nightmare of Bush Administration torture memos. This President has gone where few before him, dared. The dirty laundry — illegal, un-American, self-defeating, self-destroying — is out for all to see.
Mr. Obama deserves our praise and our thanks for that. And yet he has gone but half-way. And, in this case, in far too many respects, half the distance is worse than standing still. Today, Mr. President, in acknowledging these science-fiction-like documents, you said that:
“This is a time for reflection, not retribution. I respect the strong views and emotions that these issues evoke.”
“We have been through a dark and painful chapter in our history.
“But at a time of great challenges and disturbing disunity, nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.
Mr. President, you are wrong. What you describe would be not “spent energy” but catharsis.
Not “blame laid,” but responsibility ascribed. You continued:
Video & Full transcript at link
via Future of U.S. depends on torture accountability – Countdown with Keith Olbermann- msnbc.com.
Quote of the Day
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion;and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants,
is the liberty of appearing.
-Thomas Paine
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Taxes are the price of admission
to a civilized society
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote of the Day
“It’s class warfare,
my class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.”
- Warren Buffet CNN Interview,
May 25 2005, in arguing the need to raise taxes on the rich.
Quote of the Day
“A lie would make no sense,
unless the truth were felt to be dangerous.”
–Carl G. Jung
Quote of the Day
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is that good men do nothing.”
Edmund Burke, 1729 – 1797
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- Woodrow Wilson
Quote of the Day
When the Nazis came for the communists
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
Quote of the Day
“Give me control of a nation’s money, and I care not who writes it’s laws…”
- Meyer Armschel Rothschild 1790
Quote of the Day
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
Quote of the Day
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate,
now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers
Giant Internet worm set to change tactics April 1
Giant Internet worm set to change tactics April 1
SAN FRANCISCO – The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday — April Fools’ Day.
That’s when many of the poisoned machines will get more aggressive about “phoning home” to the worm’s creators over the Internet. When that happens, the bad guys behind the worm will be able to trigger the program to send spam, spread more infections, clog networks with traffic, or try and bring down Web sites.
Technically, this could cause havoc, from massive network outages to the creation of a cyberweapon of mass destruction that attacks government computers. But researchers who have been tracking Conficker say the date will probably come and go quietly.
More likely, these researchers say, the programming change that goes into effect April 1 is partly symbolic — an April Fools’ Day tweaking of Conficker’s pursuers, who for now have been able to prevent the worm from doing significant damage.
“I don’t think there will be a cataclysmic network event,” said Richard Wang, manager of the U.S. research division of security firm Sophos PLC. “It doesn’t make sense for the guys behind Conficker to cause a major network problem, because if they’re breaking parts of the Internet they can’t make any money.”
via Yahoo! News – Giant Internet worm set to change tactics April 1 by AP: Yahoo! Tech.
Third White House Regional Forum on Health Reform
White House Forums on Health Reform – Live Video Stream
at link
Working with Democratic and Republican Governors across the country, the White House has put together six White House Regional Forums on Health Reform. The forums bring together everyday Americans, key health care stakeholders, and elected officials from both sides of the aisle to discuss what must be done to change our health care system. The first two forums were held in Michigan and Vermont.
* Des Moines, Iowa March 23rd 1o AM CST – Live Video Stream
About a dozen leaders from The University of Iowa will be among 500 people participating in the third Regional White House Forum on Health Reform from 10 a.m. to noon today at the Polk County Convention Center in Des Moines. The forum will be moderated by Iowa Governor Chet Culver and South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds. Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office on Health Reform, will represent the Obama administration. Discussion will focus on the need to provide high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans and to curb skyrocketing health care costs.
via Health Reform.
