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If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.
Lindsey Graham1955–2026Washington Press Club Foundation Congressional Dinner (25 February 2016)
- Clever Jabs
You know how to make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to Hell.
Lindsey Graham1955–2026“Graham: Trump is a ‘race-baiting, xenophobic’ bigot (2015)” CNN (December 8, 2015)
- Clever Jabs
To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
Antonio Gramsci1891–1937“Workers’ Democracy”, L’Ordine Nuovo (21 June 1919)
- Truth & Lies
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greerborn 1939Article “Abortion”, The Sunday Times (21 May 1972)
- Abortion
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara1928–1967Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January-April 1965)
- Change
For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another.
Che Guevara1928–1967Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
- Economics
We, politely referred to as “underdeveloped,” in truth are colonial, semi-colonial or dependent countries.
Che Guevara1928–1967Cuba as Vanguard (1961)
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton1757–1804Letter to Robert Morris (30 April 1781)
- Economics
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.
Alexander Hamilton1757–1804Report on Manufactures (1791)
- Economics
I may be only a “fish and chip shop lady”, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.
Pauline Hansonborn 1954Maiden Speech as the Member for Oxley (1996)
- Clever Jabs
- Economics
Isolation is not insulation. In fact when America has isolated herself, threats have only grown.
Kamala Harrisborn 1964From a speech at the Munich Security Conference (16 February 2024), as cited in “Kamala Harris seeks to reassure allies at Munich Security Conference”, The Washington Post (16 February 2024).
- America
When young children see someone who looks like them running for office, they see themselves and what they can be, unburdened by what has been.
Kamala Harrisborn 1964Twitter 2020; as quoted by Singh, Rishika “Coconuts for Kamala Harris: Why the Internet is memeing the US VP amid speculations of her candidacy”. The Indian Express. (2024-07-07).
- Children
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison1833–1901Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5
- Economics
- Work
What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.
Václav Havel1936–2011International Herald Tribune (29 October 1991)
- Truth & Lies
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018“Science AMA Series: Stephen Hawking AMA Answers!”, reddit.com (8 October 2015)
- Economics
- Technology