“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
Category: Thought
“When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.”
Ralph Nader
Initiative and referendum is the citizen activist’s ‘ace in the hole.’
Ralph Nader was born on February 27, 1934 .
Robert Novak, born Feb. 26, 1931
“The Republican Congress should have been courageously advancing the Republican agenda and should not have been afraid of it. But they’re not playing to win; they’re playing not to lose.”
“God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don’t do that, they have no useful function.”
“It is up to the government to keep the government’s secrets.”
“The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?”
W. E. B. Du Bois, born Feb. 23, 1868
“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?”