{"quotes":[{"text":"Bernie Saunders is like a fly buzzing around a bowl of rotten fruit. Long hail this fly!","author":"Marge Simon","tags":["political","political-commentary"],"id":30114,"author_id":"Marge+Simon"},{"text":"If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?","author":"Victoria Stoklasa","tags":["government","inspirational","law","laws","political","political-commentary","political-science","politics"],"id":46778,"author_id":"Victoria+Stoklasa"},{"text":"As America slept, our constitutional quilt was slowly being unraveled by special interest... I hope you like the cold.","author":"A.J. Garces","tags":["life-lessons","political-commentary","political-philosophy"],"id":49010,"author_id":"A.J.+Garces"},{"text":"We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...","author":"T. Rafael Cimino","tags":["americans","greed","inspirational","inspirational","political-commentary","political-philosophy","political-science","political-theory","politics-of-the-united-states","religion"],"id":55948,"author_id":"T.+Rafael+Cimino"},{"text":"A mother was thinking of how to keep her naughty child in line she tried using the boogey man it didn't work ... She thought and thought then said 'the Politician is going to get you' and he was never naughty again.","author":"rassool jibraeel snyman","tags":["inspirational","political","political-commentary","political-correctness","political-parties","political-philosophy","politics","poliytical-theory"],"id":75001,"author_id":"rassool+jibraeel+snyman"},{"text":"A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler or LeMay or other that crops up. These people would not be able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity...And therefore I think that it's, in some sense, the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who share a very serious burden of guilt that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and violent.","author":"Noam Chomsky","tags":["ignorance","noam-chomsky","political-commentary","war","willful-ignorance"],"id":79814,"author_id":"Noam+Chomsky"},{"text":"Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["aggression","armageddon","armies","army","caucasus","caucasus-region","checkmate","checks-and-balances","cold-war","conflict-management","conflict-resolution","conflicts","cool-response","crimea","defence","defences","destruction-of-us","diplomacy","eastern-europe","eastern-european","end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","error","errors","escalation","fear-of-unknown","fear","fears","fears-and-doubts","force","forces","forces-of-darkness","geopolitical-forces","geopolitical-tension","geopolitics","historical-perspective","history-repeating-itself","impasse","inexorably","international-community","international-relations","international-relationships","lack-of-judgement","learning-from-mistakes","lessons-learned","lessons-learned-in-life","lessons-of-life","live-and-learn","mexican-standoff","military","military-history","military","military-theory","moscow","moscow-rules","nato","nuclear-power","nuclear-proliferation","nuclear-threat","nuclear-weapons","one-upmanship","peace-on-earth","peace","peacemaker","political-commentary","political-quandary","political","politics-observation","poor-judgement","poor-leadership","power-struggle","power-struggles","quandary","red-army","regressing","regression","repeat-mistakes","repeated-mistake","repeating-the-past","rules-of-engagement","russia","russian-federation","sabre-rattling","shiver","shivers","sliding","soviet-occupation","soviet-russia","soviet-union","sphere-of-influence","spine-chilling","stalemate","standoff","struggles","super-powers","tension","treaty","troops","ukraine","warfare","warmonger","wars","weapons-of-mass-destruction"],"id":105706,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.","author":"Victoria Stoklasa","tags":["government","government-corruption","inspirational","petitions","political","political-commentary","political-science","politics"],"id":168104,"author_id":"Victoria+Stoklasa"},{"text":"In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["believing-in-love","bigotry","coexistence","coexisting-together","coexistência","election-year-politics","extremism","gun-laws","gun-violence","hate-crimes","hatred","human-rights-day","humanity","hypocrisy","ignorance","intelligence","leadership","megalomania","national-history-day","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","police-reform","police-shootings","political-commentary","political-corruption","politics","prejudice","presidential-election","terrorism","world-suicide-prevention-day","xenophobia"],"id":191808,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["belief","democracy","government","humor","ignorance","intelligence","pathetic","political-commentary","politics","public-office"],"id":208822,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}