Lofgren Of The E Quotes

#1. The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

Mike Lofgren

#2. Capturing the terms of the debate through the adroit use of language has allowed the GOP to bamboozle millions of people about their own material interests.

Mike Lofgren

#3. Over the last four decades, the Republican Party has transformed from a loyal opposition into an insurrectionary party that flouts the law when it is in the majority and threatens disorder when it is the minority.

Mike Lofgren

#4. For the first time I realized I could be more than a crawling little pile of bones and flesh in a onesie.

Sarah Lofgren

#5. A politician is a hog grateful to whoever is rattling the stick inside the swill bucket. It is time to take the swill bucket away. p 270

Mike Lofgren

#6. The GOP's thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.

Mike Lofgren

#7. Its belief in polarizing language and tactics, a militant and militarized foreign policy, and a constant search for mortal enemies, foreign and domestic alike, qualifies the current GOP as a radical right-wing party, not a conservative one.

Mike Lofgren

#8. You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

David E. Kelley

#9. The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe,

Mike Lofgren

#10. Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is to create a permanent underclass.

Zoe Lofgren

#11. The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

Bruce Springsteen

#12. Both sanctions and bombing give the illusion of precision, calibration, and the capacity to ratchet up coercion in a gradual escalation. And both have the capacity to cause tremendous suffering among innocent third parties while having far less strategic effect than their advocates claim.

Mike Lofgren

#13. It is not only the voice of blood that needs no eyes, love, which people say is blind, also has a voice of its own.

Jose Saramago

#14. We must let our hopes be greater than our fears.

Mike Lofgren

#15. In effect, sanctions take another country's civilian population hostage in order to get its leaders to acquiesce.

Mike Lofgren

#16. There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.

Dick Cavett

#17. The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

Zoe Lofgren

#18. rogue state: a country that violates international law by committing armed aggression, torturing prisoners, assassinating opponents, and possessing weapons of mass destruction.

Mike Lofgren

#19. How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

Jane Austen

#20. study by the Bertelsmann Foundation concluded that in measures of economic equality, social mobility, and poverty prevention, the United States ranks twenty-seventh out of the thirty-one advanced industrial nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Mike Lofgren

#21. A public that pays more attention to reality TV than its status as free citizens cannot withstand an unremitting encroachment on its liberties by calculating, unscrupulous, and power-hungry leaders.

Mike Lofgren

#22. I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

Zoe Lofgren

#23. It is no coincidence that as the Supreme Court has been removing the last constraints on the legalized corruption of politicians, the American standard of living has been falling at the fastest rate in decades.

Mike Lofgren

#24. We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

Zoe Lofgren

#25. The United States forgot - if it ever knew - the supreme virtue of an enlightened realpolitik, which is to keep one's powder dry, intervene militarily as a last resort (rather than a first), and maintain industrial and fiscal strength at home.

Mike Lofgren

#26. Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

Zoe Lofgren

#27. It's better to think the best of everyone and be wrong than assume the worst and be right.

A. Lee Martinez

#28. I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.

Zoe Lofgren

#29. The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight,

Mike Lofgren

#30. What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.

Zoe Lofgren

#31. A new threshold of sorts was crossed in 2013 when Jim DeMint (R-SC), with four years still remaining in his Senate term, resigned from office to become president of the Heritage Foundation, not only because he could exert more influence there than as a sitting senator (or so he claimed - which,

Mike Lofgren