1. - Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 04:16 - 2 notes

  2. “Progressive government by its very terms, must be a living and growing thing, that the battle for it is never ending and that if we let up for one single moment or one single year, not merely do we stand still but we fall back in the march of civilization.”

    — FDR

  3. - Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 16:51 - 1 note

  4. “After a 50-year decline, just 14 percent of respondents in a 2011 Gallup Poll said that the federal government could be trusted “a great deal.” It’s a vicious cycle. Voters don’t like hard truths; so politicians spin us; so we don’t trust politicians; so politicians pander and lie to us.”

    — “In Nothing We Trust” (National Journal)

    (Source: nationaljournal.com)

  5. - Friday, April 20, 2012 - 23:46 - 1 note

  6. “Governments can wait for opinion to force their hand, or they can lead. They can wait for the world to change and respond as necessity demands, or they can see the way the world is going and point the way.”

    — Paul Keating, former Australian prime minister

    (Source: australianpolitics.com)

  7. - Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 22:19 - 7 notes

  8. “The first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, launched the Transcontinental Railroad, the National Academy of Sciences, the first land-grant colleges in the middle of a civil war — because he understood those investments will pay dividends for decades to come. Teddy Roosevelt, Republican, called for a progressive income tax because he understood that we don’t want a system in which barriers are created for the majority of people to be able to succeed.

    Dwight Eisenhower, Republican, built the Interstate Highway System, stitching us together as one nation. Republicans in Congress supported FDR when he gave millions of returning heroes, including my grandfather, a chance to go to college on the G.I. Bill.

    This is not a left/right idea. This is an American idea.”

    — President Obama

    (Source: whitehouse.gov)

  9. - Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 18:40 - 1 note

  10. “I am still stunned by the fact that the people who are so wilfully destroying the middle class, whose handiwork these last thirty years has now become dreadfully evident, still claim to be our champions. How come we are reeling? Was it an act of God? Did big government steal everything? No, it was your mortgage backed securities, your collateralized debt obligations, your repeal of Glass Steagal, your destruction of unions, and the beat goes on. And the already too small and fearful government which did not protect us.”

    — Jonathan Wallace

    (Source: spectacle.org)

  11. - Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 17:14 - 1 note

  12. “The confidence of the nation rests on trust and can endure for years after this trust has been broken. But it cannot endure indefinitely if the foundation of trust is not at some point earned. Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions: justly enforced laws, sound investments, solidly built structures, the well-considered decisions of experts and professionals. Confidence is the public pace of competence. Separating the two—gaining the trust without earning it—is the age-old work of confidence men.”

    — Confidence Men (Ron Suskind)

  13. - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 23:00 - 2 notes

  14. “

    In offering a laundry list of programs large and small, Obama’s address was positively Clintonian. But there was a major difference. In his 1996 State of the Union, Clinton chose to bend to the conservative wind that had blown in with the Republican sweep in the previous midterm election. “The era of big government is over,” Clinton declared in one of his most celebrated lines.

    Obama, on the other hand, confronts an even more radical and sweeping assault on government, and so he has decided to take it on, forcefully and directly.

    ”

    — E. J. Dionne

    (Source: Washington Post)

  15. - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 20:07 - 6 notes

  16. “Let’s never forget: Millions of Americans who work hard and play by the rules every day deserve a government and a financial system that do the same. It’s time to apply the same rules from top to bottom. No bailouts, no handouts, and no copouts. An America built to last insists on responsibility from everybody.”

    — President Obama

    (Source: whitehouse.gov)

  17. - Monday, January 23, 2012 - 20:40 - 17 notes from Reform Party National Committee (originally from ▲機?기계?魚!рыбы!▼)

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    Bill Moyers talks to former White House budget director (under Reagan) David Stockman about crony capitalism in the United States (2012)

  19. - Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 13:30 - 26 notes from Forward (originally from Forward)

  20. “The essence of the Progressive movement, as I see it, lies in its purpose to uphold the fundamental principles of representative government. It expresses the hopes and desires of millions of common men and women who are willing to fight for their ideals, to take defeat if necessary, and still go on fighting.”

    — Robert M. LaFollette (via wisconsinforward)