NC born, now in NY; musician (Oberlin College & Conservatory; Columbia Grad School); retired from teaching in public school. :D
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"An iron curtain has descended across the continent." — Winston Churchill, March 5, 1946.
"Are you going to be responsible for the rioting if we hear this case?" — Chief Justice Roberts, who apparently had a secret codicil to his oath of office.
"Thieves only carry weapons for self-protection and to provide the householder an incentive to cooperate." — Texas State House Rep. Terry Meza, proposing to bar "castle defense" protection for victims of home invasions.
"The way I see it, there's always, c'mon, there's always money. It's there." — Elizabeth Warren, explaining socialism.
“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.... We really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” — Saikat Chakrabarti, then AOC's Chief of Staff.
"We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them." — CNN's Don Lemon, showing how to stop demonizing people.