"The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war throughout the world, and because here at home, we have 50 million of our citizens living in poverty, one in four children surviving on Food Stamps, a collapsing education system, poor health care, and many other disasters, none of which can be addressed as long as the country keeps pouring trillions of dollars into war and militarism. This madness and criminality must end!"

-- Dave Lindorff

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #War Quotes

“I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.”
“In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.”

Source : "Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.
“You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.”
“I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!”
“You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.”
“The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.”
“It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can”

Source : "Hull Daily Mail" Newspaper, March 2, 1936.
“I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.”

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