As constituents, we've become lazy in terms of what we want and how to get it. If we, as a constituency, don't like what Congress is doing, but 90 percent of incumbents get reelected every year, that's a problem.
What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.
Year after year we do not get reform as a result of scandals; we simply get more scandals.
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.
...the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are beholden to industry. They always will be. And, the American people are fooled when they think that if you can just get McGovern instead of Humphrey, or if you can get a Democrat instead of a Republican, this will be the end of our problems.
Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!
For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it is only within the last thirty that any serious attempt has been made to find a remedy for this state of things. And with what result? Schools remain exactly as they were.
It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going to happen... I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is boring. The future is going to be boring.
We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.
The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.
Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.
It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.
Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
You haven’t changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always.
Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.
Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.
A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
I feel like the Earth is a re-print of a re-print of a print of a re-print.
As a child, I was awkward, fidgety, and shy, with a total inability to concentrate, and in that regard, I'm exactly the same as an adult.
Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.
I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.
Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.
