September 5, 2011
"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

— Abraham Lincoln, noted Marxist Socialist Fascist.

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August 1, 2011
"Anyone who characterizes the debt-ceiling deal as a victory for the American people over partisanship understands neither politics nor economics."

— Robert Reich

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July 29, 2011
"Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof."

— Rumi

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July 24, 2011
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To start announcing your own preferences for old values when your world is collapsing and everything is changing at a furious pitch: this is not the act of a serious person. It is frivolous, fatuous. If you were to knock on the door of one of these critics and say “Sir, there are flames leaping out of your roof, your house is burning,” under these conditions he would then say to you, “That’s a very interesting point of view. Personally, I couldn’t disagree with you more.”

That’s all these critics are saying. Their house is burning and they’re saying, “Don’t you have any sense of values, simply telling people about fire when you should be thinking about the serious content, the noble works of the mind?”

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— Marshall McLuhan

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July 6, 2011
"Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the costs, the disruptions and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this [debt ceiling increase] legislation before the Congress adjourns."

— Ronald Reagan

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June 23, 2011
"If you had to write a plausible scenario for how America defaults on its debt, or at least seriously spooks the market, this is how it would start. After insisting on using the debt limit as leverage for a budget deal, the Republican leadership finds they can’t actually strike a deficit-reduction deal, but nor can they go back on their promise to vote against any increase in the debt limit that isn’t accompanied by a deficit-reduction deal. Cantor is putting personal power before country here, and in a very dangerous way. If Boehner actually does manage to cut a decent deal despite Cantor’s abandonment, he may not hold on as leader of his party, but unlike Cantor, he’ll deserve to."

— Ezra Klein

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June 5, 2011
"George Jefferson wore bell-bottoms to warn the British."

—

accordingtopalin

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April 26, 2011
"President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican from the early 1990s. And the Republican Party he’s facing has abandoned many of its best ideas in its effort to oppose him."

— Ezra Klein

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April 11, 2011
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

— John Rogers

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April 8, 2011
"The House leadership, with the Speaker, have a very clear choice to make. And they don’t have much time to make that choice. They can keep their word and signficantly cut the federal deficit, or they can shut down America’s government over women’s access to health care. If that sounds ridiculous, it’s because it is ridiculous."

— Harry Reid

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