Quotes
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- One thing was clear: President Biden just doesn’t get it. He’s out of touch. Under his administration, families are worse off. Our communities are less safe, and our country is less secure.March 7, 2024
- Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right … and a desire to know.1765
- Today, the expenditures of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need them is essential to the keeping of peace. But surely, the acquisition of such idle stockpiles, which can only destroy and never create, is not the only - much less the most efficient - means of assuring peace.June 10, 1963
- Hate, anger, revenge, retribution are the oldest of ideas. But you can’t lead America with ancient ideas that only take us back. To lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future and what can and should be done.March 7, 2024
- Indeed, a major element of Trump’s campaign to “make America great again” was an appeal for law and order right out of Richard Nixon’s playbook.July 14, 2023
- He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it.April 4, 2023
- Pliny the Elder, writing not long afterwards, noted sadly that too many people undermine nature with the sole purpose of self-enrichment; it should hardly come as a surprise, therefore, that the earth should occasionally show its displeasure, through disasters such as earthquakes.March 2, 2023
- If all the trappings were stripped away, leaving only my true self, who would I be? Am I living fully as that self in every moment? And when it ends, will my story have meaning?May 23, 2023
- Not all bootstraps go up, no matter how hard you pull.September 19, 2023
- Separating the design of a product from its engineering was a recipe for dysfunction. Designers had to feel the immediate pain if something they devised was hard to engineer.September 15, 2023
- There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when it is a deliberate policy choice.April 21, 2023
- What we do know for sure is that both African and Native American populations had one thing in common: resistance.September 25, 2023