American Pastime

“By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim… we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.”  -Martin Luther King, Jr. 
  

Political Cowardice

"When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons?"  -Rupert Murdoch 

Supporting Gun Control

"I support the Brady Bill, and I urge the Congress to enact it without further delay." -Ronald Reagan
 

Well Regulated Security?

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state...”  -The Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution
 

Progress for the People

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”  -Frederick Douglass
 

Vote!

“A man without a vote is a man without protection.”  -Lyndon B. Johnson
  

Suppressing the Vote

"I don't want everybody to vote…  our leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populace goes down."  -Paul Weyrich, conservative activist, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation
 

Dismantling FEMA

 

“Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction... send it back to the private sector... We cannot afford [disaster relief]” -Mitt Romney, 2012
 

Denying Reality

“Potential effects of global warming: rising sea level, changing precipitation, more extreme weather...”  -Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001

 

Significant Effects

 

“...an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can contribute to a gradual warming of the lower atmosphere… effects on a regional and global scale may be detectable before the end of this century and become significant before the middle of the next century.”   -World Meteorological Organization, 1979
 

Hell to Pay

“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?”  -Robert F. Kennedy
 

Powerless Before the Market

“No president has the power to increase or lower gas prices. Those are market forces.”  -Cal Thomas, Fox News, 2008
 

The Voters Decide Nothing

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”  -Josef Stalin
 

The End of Democracy

"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations"  -Thomas Jefferson
 

Taking Oaths That Supercede the Oath of Office

 

“Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times in his administration - I was there.”  -GOP Senator Alan Simpson
 

"Less Government, More Freedom" 2

“Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved”  -Ayn Rand
 

Determining the News

“A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts… And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.”  -Walter Cronkite
 

"Right To Work"

"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower
 

Commanding Worship

“We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.”  -Ronald Reagan
 

Stealing From the Hungry

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.”  -Dwight D. Eisenhower
 

Hostile to Liberty

 

“Overgrown military establishments are, under any form of government, inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”  -George Washington
 

All of Us

"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."  -Theodore Roosevelt
 

Proportional Taxation

"Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual."  -Thomas Jefferson
  

Questioning Authority

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”  -Benjamin Franklin
 

Patriotic Dissent

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”  -Thomas Paine
 

"Less Government, More Freedom"

“The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.”  -U.S. Supreme Court, 1967
 

Leaving the People in Ignorance

“The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to the kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.”  -Thomas Jefferson
 

September Surprise

“Tampering with foreign policy for partisan benefit has, of course, happened before and it may well happen again.”  -Gary Sick, author of “October Surprise"
 

This Government Knew

 

“This government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists, before September 11, than it has ever admitted."  -Senator Max Cleland, 9/11 Commission

 

Set Up

“The Commission was set up to fail.”  -Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman