It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.
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Related Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objectiv... STERLING K. BROWN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money c... DAVID DEWHURST You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning ... ALBERTO CAEIRO Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of De... HUGO CHAVEZ What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, un... EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und... EDMUND BURKE I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be ... I. M. PEI Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just anothe... STEVEN SODERBERGH The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is GEORGE CARLIN It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no ... DAN COLEN Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let... NOAM CHOMSKY Our company has weathered one of the most difficult quarters in history, marked by recession and war... BRUCE ROHDE If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty JAPANESE PROVERB I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more... GLENN GREENWALD Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabulari... KENNETH BURKE I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the mo... PETER O'TOOLE We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary. HOWARD FAST If he is going to go to war in a nation whose history shows it has never had a democracy -- it has r... DIANE FEINSTEIN Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least t... MARY ELLEN CHASE It's going to rub off on the candidates up and down the ballot. When voters look at what Republicans... JOSH EARNEST Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man h... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play... KYRIE IRVING If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under... JAMES FORRESTAL Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as... CALEB DESCHANEL As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agre... STACY SCHIFF In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. O... WESLEY MORRIS What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concer... PETE TOWNSHEND Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do... DOUGLAS CONANT I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation...... CHRIS GABRIELI It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of... PAT ROBERTSON To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion,... LIZZIE ARMITSTEAD I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things h... DOUG LIMAN We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvan... DINESH D'SOUZA If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of m... KARL JASPERS Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO When you're an actress - or just a woman - a lot of the exercise classes that are offered are so... BETTY GILPIN We were playing without several key players and had juniors on the bench, thus, it was difficult to ... DANNY BLIND In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's di... MATT TAIBBI The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington ... JAMES DOBSON Accept this for what it is: an emotional reaction to tragic circumstances. But are people going to s... KEN MAYLAND On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election i... JIM GERLACH I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differe... RONDA ROUSEY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY In today's world, honesty has unfortunately morphed into an extremely expensive hobby...and is no mo... MAMUR MUSTAPHA Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise ever... TED CRUZ An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is... CARL GUSTAV JUNG The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is p... JULIAN BAGGINI The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we t... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Evaluating people is quite difficult. In order to properly evaluate a man, we should have a chance t... ERALDO BANOVAC In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, c... MIKE DITKA It is the very essence of despotism that it can never afford to fail. This is what distinguishes it... WALTER LIPPMANN The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the count... DAN BARTLETT Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from W... TED CRUZ It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: Y... JAMES WAN When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences,... GERALD CLAYTON The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it'... PATRICK O'BRIAN Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension ... GILLIAN ANDERSON Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the ... GEORGE NOORY Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how... SHIMON PERES PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA I'm a little bit shy and from the Midwest, so to be so open and honest with millions of people i... CONNOR FRANTA Even so, I’m somebody. I’m the Discoverer of Nature. I’m the Argonaut of true sensat... ALBERTO CAEIRO has made real progress under difficult circumstances. JANE HARMAN For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the e... YAYOI KUSAMA It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where the... LOIS LOWRY If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is c... JOHN LEWIS GADDIS If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, ... ROBERT HERJAVEC When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain... JACK HENRY ABBOTT The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offer... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and ... JOHN RUSKIN What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight sui... OLIVER NORTH I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people c... EUGENE FAMA Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credi... TOM SHALES Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being ... SAM SHEPARD Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy b... SHAUN HICK We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the fai... BERNARD SHAW The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor... BILLY GRAHAM The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going ... BRUCE VILANCH I think that people on both sides of the aisle are rejecting what's going on with Washington and... SCOTT DESJARLAIS Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having i... WALTER WINCHELL Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having i... WALTER WINCHELL I'm big on this 'no budget, no pay.' I think that's important. Let's get right a... KURT SCHRADER A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you. CARLY FIORINA Abbas is someone who is in a difficult situation. But he is looking to dispel the accusation that he... ZIAD ASALI
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