"Politics is history in the present tense."

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“Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.”

“The far-right and far-left can be equally insane.”

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“Us and against them is the opposite of our national motto, e pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”

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"We are not going to make America great again. It was never that great. We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged. We will reach greatness when discrim…"

— Andrew Cuomo

Politics1957

#politics

"Economic injustice is one of the most intractable problems that humanity has had because, actually economic justice has never really existed in most societies... in a long history of mankind, 5,000 ye…"

— Bernard Lietaer

Economics1942–2019

#Human Nature

"I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old."

— D. L. Hughley

Entertainment1963

#justice

"It is not strange that the engineer fails to produce a unique solution, that his product is seen to be the result of 'art' more than science. ...The product becomes a matter of opinion... and joins th…"

— Eric Laithwaite

Technology1921–1997

#art