"Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -"

-- Denise Levertov

#Who I Am Quotes #Tree Quotes #Tears Quotes

“Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 21, 2014
“We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.”
“The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.”
“People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.”

Source : "North Carolina race remains tight" by Martin Kady Ii, www.politico.com. September 09, 2008.
“It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit... He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.”
“Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.”

Source : "Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century" by Beth Simone Noveck, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.
“I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.”
“I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.”

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