"I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over."

-- John Avlon

#Party Quotes #Believe Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.”
“If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.”
“The heroâ€™s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, youâ€™re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, thatâ€™s not been touched. So youâ€™re at home here? Well, thereâ€™s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.”
“As a child of God, you must realize that you are on the winning side of prophecy; until you win it is not over!”
“Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.”
“It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions.”
“I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???”
“The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.”

Source : "No Shame, No Sense and a $296 Billion Bill". www.washingtonpost.com. July 20, 2006.

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