{"quotes":[{"text":"Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","bigot","bigotry","bigots","co-optation","co-opting","discrimination","discrimination","first-amendment","first-amendment-defense-act","freedom-of-religion","gay-rights","government","government","homophobia","homophobic","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","lgbtqia","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","politics","prejudice","religion","religious-freedom"],"id":1033,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.","author":"Noam Chomsky","tags":["advertising","marketing","media-of-the-united-states","politician","politics-of-the-united-states"],"id":10690,"author_id":"Noam+Chomsky"},{"text":"The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked.","author":"Nina Power","tags":["feminism","politics","politics-of-the-united-states"],"id":12158,"author_id":"Nina+Power"},{"text":"Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["california","capitalism","corruption","greed","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","socialism"],"id":18707,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["foreign-relations","latin-america","politics","politics-of-central-america","politics-of-mexico","politics-of-south-america","politics-of-the-united-states","united-states"],"id":19319,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"The older America, until the 1890s and in some respects until 1914, was wrapped in the security of continental isolation, village society, the Protestant denominations, and a flourishing industrial capitalism. But reluctantly, year by year, over several decades, it has been drawn into the twentieth century and forced to cope with its unpleasant realities: first the incursions of cosmopolitanism and skepticism, then the disappearance of American isolation and easy military security, the collapse of traditional capitalism and its supplementation by a centralized welfare state, finally the unrelenting costs and stringencies of the Second World War, the Korean War, and the cold war. As a consequence, the heartland of America, filled with people who are often fundamentalist in religion, nativist in prejudice, isolationist in foreign policy, and conservative in economics, has constantly rumbled with an underground revolt against all these tormenting manifestations of our modern predicament.","author":"Richard Hofstadter","tags":["anti-intellectualism","history","intellectual","intellectualism","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","united-states-history"],"id":27703,"author_id":"Richard+Hofstadter"},{"text":"The 2016 USA presidential election race clarified how an evil Nazi dictator like Adolf Hitler was able to come to power in global politics.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["2016","able","adolf","clarified","come","dictator","election","election-2016","evil","global","hitler","nazi","political-philosophy","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","power","president-of-the-united-states","presidential","presidential-election","presidential-race","race","usa"],"id":35552,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.","author":"Jon Stewart","tags":["funny","politics-of-the-united-states"],"id":44957,"author_id":"Jon+Stewart"},{"text":"...Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many, on their getting warm, becoming rude, \u0026 shooting one another. ... When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine; why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ... There are two classes of disputants most frequently to be met with among us. The first is of young students, just entered the threshold of science, with a first view of its outlines, not yet filled up with the details \u0026 modifications which a further progress would bring to their knoledge. The other consists of the ill-tempered \u0026 rude men in society, who have taken up a passion for politics. ... Consider yourself, when with them, as among the patients of Bedlam, needing medical more than moral counsel. Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially on politics. In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["politics","politics-of-the-united-states"],"id":47886,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"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"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":81,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}