“Senator John Kerry is in trouble for making a joke about soldiers being uneducated. As a result, Kerry promised to stop making jokes and stick to boring people.”
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“The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat at the Olive Garden until they have health insurance.”
“Donald Trump refuses to give details about his policy plans. Trump apologized by saying, 'When I announced I was running for president, I had no idea people would take me seriously.'”
“Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay at home and do nothing, you should turn the Internet back on.”
“Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.”
“In China, people are selling their kidney to buy an iPhone 6. What's going to happen when the iPhone 7 comes out?”
“People are saying that Rick Perry is really tough because he has executed over 200 people. And that was just while he was on vacation in Florida.”
“I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.”
“Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.”
“People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.”
“There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least.”
“We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .”
“Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.”
“In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.”
“I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse than this. We've got slavery and Jim Crow. We've got workers with no rights up until `35. We're going to bounce back. We are resilient, resisting people. So, it's not pessimism, but it is blues-like. It's not optimistic. We're just prisoners of hope, that's all.”
“The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.”
“I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being.”
“The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.”
“We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.”
“Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.”