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Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

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—Bill Moyers (29/10/1965)
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.

—Mark Twain
Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

—Mark Twain
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

—Rene Descartes
[Conservative leaders] need to understand the critical role that the separation of church and state has played in preserving not only our democracy, but the robustness of our religious practice. Folks tend to forget that during our founding, it wasn't the atheists or the civil libertarians who were the most effective champions of the First Amendment. It was the persecuted minorities, it was Baptists like John Leland who didn't want the established churches to impose their views on folks who were getting happy out in the fields and teaching the scripture to slaves. It was the forbearers of the evangelicals who were the most adamant about not mingling government with religious, because they did not want state-sponsored religion hindering their ability to practice their faith as they understood it.

—Barack Obama (28/06/2006)
The public must be able to trust the science and scientific process informing public policy decisions ... Public officials should not suppress or alter scientific or technological findings and conclusions.

—Barack Obama
[In] Democratic societies ... the state can't control behavior by force. It can to some extent, but it's much more limited in its capacity to control by force. Therefore, it has to control what you think. ... One of the ways you control what people think is by creating the illusion that there's a debate going on, but making sure that that debate stays within very narrow margins. Namely, you have to make sure that both sides in the debate accept certain assumptions, and those assumptions turn out to be the propaganda system. As long as everyone accepts the propaganda system, then you can have a debate.

—Noam Chomsky (24/10/1986)
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well-informed just to be undecided about them.

—Laurence J. Peter
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.

—Barack Obama (20/01/2009)
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

—Douglas Adams
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas.

—Aldous Huxley
Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

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Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.

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I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to the science of how life has actually evolved, but a passionate anti-Darwinian when it comes to the politics of how humans ought to behave.

—Richard Dawkins
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

—Otto von Bismarck
The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

—Edward Bernays (03/1947)
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post 'Thou shalt not steal', 'Thou shalt not commit adultery' and 'Thou shalt not lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

—George Carlin

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