" This was a vivid quote of how Romney felt about the black community and that is why Ms. ... McKinney mentioned a quote of hers in which she said "Slavery ended, but the idea of race lived on.... The last part of Hardball is directed towards the reputations within politics. ...
They urged adoption of the secret ballot, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, and the direct election of senators. ... Beyond this, scholars, digesting the mountain of social and economic analysis generated by the Populists, focused on certain colorful characters, such as Mary Elizabeth Lease of Kansas and Thomas Watson of Georgia, and quoted selected purple passages to emphasize the "primitive" or "demagogic" elements that seemed to animate the movement. ...
The following quote by the former United States Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, seems to summarize the government's perception of this sensitive subject: An Affirmative Action Plan is a "careful, systematic analysis of who you've got, who's out there, and how you are going to broaden opportunity. ... In 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12432, which directed each federal agency with substantial procurement or grant making authority to develop a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) development plan. ...
The opponent of the Act, who argues in favor of constitutionalism and liberty, might often quote Benjamin Franklin, who purportedly said "those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.... Realistically, this is in direct contrast to the findings of Power (2002), whose work on the establishment of international institutions is far dated from the modern world. ...
This ignorance even extends to politicians, Senator Tom Daschle is quoted as saying that, "Through a combination of wrongheaded fiscal policy and tentative economic leadership, we have now suffered one of the most dramatic fiscal turnarounds in American history" (G.O.P.). ...
