"Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low."
― Eric Liu
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Government
― Eric Liu
More From Eric Liu
- "Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you’ll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a ‘moral value’ – ‘affordable health care is a moral value’ etc., – then you’ll appeal to red-state voters."
- "Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the ’04 elections is that politics is a word game."
- "In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law."
More In Government
- "If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense. It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values."― Ai Weiwei
- "Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances."― Steve Allen
- "I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America."― Bianca Jagger