WE WORSHIP GOD
 
For too long politicians have tried — oh have they tried — to centralize authority among the hands of a small few in our nation's capital.  I see them all the time.  Bureaucrats think they can run over your lives, overrule your values, meddle in your faith, and tell you how to live, what to say, and where to pray.  But we know that parents, not bureaucrats, know best how to raise their children and create a thriving society.  And we know that families and churches, not government officials, know best how to create a strong, loving community.  And above all else, we know this:  in America, we don't worship government, we worship God.
 — Donald Trump
 
 
MOB RULE
 
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women – of all classes – detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion – mob rule.  And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
 — T.S. Eliot
 
 
FACTS VERSUS ATTITUDES
 
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.  The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it.  You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
 — Norman Vincent Peale
 
 
WHAT HAS MADE AMERICA AMAZING
 
What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history throughout the more than two hundred years of our history there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.
 — Scott Walker
 
 
CHARACTER REVEALED
 
As a believer whose husband serves in the state House and who has witnessed the lives of many who are elected to statewide office, let me offer my limited observation.  Election to public office does not corrupt anyone's morals.  Character is formed long before a political win.  Elected office is only a very hot fire that exposes the heart of the one elected.
 — Janis Kristiansen, Snohomish, WA
 
 
POLITICS – OUR DEEPEST FORM OF EXPRESSION
 
Our politics are our deepest form of expression:  they mirror out past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
 — Paul Wellstone
 
 
TRUE TERROR
 
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
 — Kurt Vonnegut
 
 
CONQUERING FEAR
 
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided that he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
 — Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
MORAL BRAVERY
 
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
 — Wendell Phillips
 
 
REAL COURAGE
 
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
 — Plutarch
 
 
INSIGHT
 
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?
 — Marcus Tullius Cicero  (106-43 BC)
 
 
UPRIGHT
 
The problem today is not that religious people are trying to impose their views on nonreligious people, it's the opposite — it's that militant secularists are trying to impose their values on religious people and they're not accommodating the freedom of religion of people of faith.
 — U.S. Attorney General William Barr
 
 
FOR THE RECORD
 
John Roberts did nothing while the FISA court which he personally oversees illegally spied on an American citizen. He did nothing when DOJ determined the court was defrauded. But when a senator asked a question? Roberts shut that down. Twice. What a disgraceful coward.
 — Sean Davis
 
 
BRAYING JENNY
 
I don't know how [Trump's attorneys] can retain their lawyer status, in the comments that they're making. I don't think they made the case. I think they disgraced themselves terribly in terms of their violation of what our Constitution is about and what a president's behavior should be.
 — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
 
 
MOVING THE GOALPOSTS
 
You cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial. You don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation and all of that."
— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
 
 
A BLAST FROM THE PAST
 
The Senate may dismiss articles of impeachment without holding a full trial or taking any evidence. Put another way, the Constitution does not impose on the Senate the duty to hold a trial. In fact, the Senate need not hold a trial even though the House wishes to present evidence and hold a full trial.
 — Sen. Joe Biden, January 5, 1999
 
 
THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
 
This was not a partisan impeachment ... even if it was a party-line vote.
— Sen. Joe Biden
 
 
HYPER-HYPERBOLE
 
: "We are watching the crowning of the president with Mitch McConnell holding the crown."
 —Sen. Mazie Hirono
 
 
GRAND DELUSIONS
 
Imagine Donald Trump deciding, sometime in June, 'Well, I heard this conspiracy theory that a whole lot of illegal immigrants voted in California. So, I've decided that, during the presidential election, California has to undergo extreme vetting.' This is literally the kind of thing he will do now. We're not talking hypotheticals, anymore.
 — MSNBC pundit Jason Johnson
 
 
UNPLANNED FAILURE
 
Democrats embarked on an effort doomed to failure from the start, and [they're] now shocked and outraged that it failed.
 — Rich Lowry