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By: Spotlight: The Woman’s Club of Smithfield « VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:42:59 +0000

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By: proudvadem

proudvadem — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:09:03 +0000

Some of my favorites…Obviously, I was a huge Wellstone fan. I can’t believe he’s been gone 8 years. RIP Senator Wellstone.

I don’t think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
Paul Wellstone

If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.
Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives. It’s about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.”- the late Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN)

Great advice from Randy Pausch’s amazing lecture:
1. Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.
2. Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
3. Never lose the child-like wonder.
4. If we do something which is pioneering, we will get arrows in the back. But at the end of the day, a whole lot of people will have a whole lot of fun.
…5. Be good at something; it makes you valuable.
6. If you live your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and the dreams will come to you.

“Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives. It’s about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.”- the late Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN)

Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
- Proverbs 31:8-9

And of course Jimmy Buffett: “We are the people our parents warned us about”

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:13:35 +0000

‘The main thing wrong with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.’
Margaret Thatcher

By: Bruce Deitrick Price

Bruce Deitrick Price — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:06:49 +0000

“When the cat of common sense is away, the sophistical mice will play.”

(From a review I have on Amazon, of a book by Ken Goodman, anti-phonics godfather. My only quotable quote. So far.)

By: Random, interrelated thoughts « VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:36:52 +0000

[...] and the tendency to speak about things with which the speaker has no knowledge. In one of my favorite quotes, Mark Twain said, “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and [...]

By: Democracy in action in Norfolk « VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:45:28 +0000

[...] quote above is one of my favorites. And Tuesday, we got an opportunity to see it [...]

By: Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:49:26 +0000

Nothing pinpoints the disaster that was 20th century politics better than this quote from “Pogo” aka Al Capp…”We have seen the enemy and he is us…

By: Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:46:53 +0000

…And that is why he lived his own personal nightmare within the confines of a rather lack-luster solitary presidential term…

By: allan zaleski

allan zaleski — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:43:55 +0000

“the less you know, the better you sleep.”
Leonid Brezhnev

By: Taylor

Taylor — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:39:04 +0000

Proverbs 23:9
Do not speak to a fool, for he will scorn the wisdom of your words.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:33:26 +0000

I’ve got one for you…

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”

–P.J. O’Rourke

By: Snaggle-Tooth Jones

Snaggle-Tooth Jones — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:39:31 +0000

“I feel more like I do now than I did when I first got here.” Snaggle-Tooth’s ol’ Dad.

By: MLK Day activities « VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local

MLK Day activities « VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:59:28 +0000

[...] quotes I heard this morning was one which really stuck out for me and which I will be adding to my quotes page. It was one with which I was unfamiliar but which deserves being repeated over and over: Right [...]

By: vjp

vjp — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:13:50 +0000

Sorry – I just noticed that this page had the comments automatically turned off.

By: krtk

krtk — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:51:47 +0000

” He who strikes gets struck with what he struck with ” – Manoj S.

By: DAR

DAR — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:11:56 +0000

From the book “Tranquiltiy”:
“Facts do not cease to exist just because we choose to ignore them.” ~ “Nothing endures like truth, even if lies are quicker initially.” ~ “It is wise to speak your truth quietly and clearly.” ~ “Good credentials don’t necessarily make good people.” ~
All there are in this world are other people, none are lesser or greater than you.” ~ Compatibility comes about not through sameness, but through respect for our differences.” ~ “Who is the richer, he who has much and wants more, or he who has little and wants less?” ~”Have much and be confused”-Tao Te Ching

By: TheEmperfect

TheEmperfect — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:36:38 +0000

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”

That actually should be quoted by Samuel Clemens since that’s his real name.

Great quotes!

By: JACK STILES

JACK STILES — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:58:13 +0000

‘A time of chosing ‘ Ronald Reagan for Goldwater/Miller 1964.

By: JACK STILES

JACK STILES — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:58:21 +0000

‘ Putting people 1st for a change ‘ Gov.Bill clinton and Senator Al gore 1992!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:05:58 +0000

“I would rather have people hate me for who I am rather than love me for who I am not” – Kurt Cobain

By: Les

Les — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:29:12 +0000

“I don’t know what apathy is and I don’t give a damn either” – I don’t remember who said that, but then again, I don’t really care either.

By: Tom Palumbo

Tom Palumbo — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:15:45 +0000

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act!” – George Orwell

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:36:14 +0000

“Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.”
-George Carlin

By: JACK STILES

JACK STILES — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:14:38 +0000

“THE NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER” FORMER PRESIDENT FORD, now another segment of time is gone, god bless him and his family.

By: James Martin

James Martin — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:44:45 +0000

Why I’m a Democrat

“I know that government cannot resolve all problems.

It cannot make them happy or bring them spiritual fulfillment.

But it can attempt to remedy the public failures which are at the root of so many human ills.”

-President Lyndon Johnson

By: Tyler Craddock

Tyler Craddock — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:51:14 +0000

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.”

– Frederick Douglass

By: Jeremy Hinton

Jeremy Hinton — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:59:09 +0000

My current favorite, for its own percieved relevance:

“Nothing is more common than for a free people, in times of heat and violence, to gratify momentary passions, by letting into the government, principles and precedents which afterwards prove fatal to themselves.”
- Alexander Hamliton, Letter from Phocion

By: HMR

HMR — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:29:30 +0000

“It’s not how much you’re spending, it’s what you’re spending it on.” Charles DeGaulle

By: Greg Bouchillon

Greg Bouchillon — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:18:55 +0000

I have the heart of a small child…in a jar, on my desk. – Stephen King

By: vjp

vjp — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:04:13 +0000

Excellent!

By: Bwana

Bwana — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:48:48 +0000

Cannot help but add my favorite Dr. King quote:

“The time is always right to do what is right”