Attended 90%+ of the protests organized in DC since a week after Mahsa's murder, hot or cold, rain or shine - None of it amounted to a hill of beans!—Me

There's a cult of ignorance in the United States and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge".—Isaac Asimov

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress...who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress...to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same," —Section 3 of the 14th Amendment

In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. When it comes to the unity of America, those days seem distant from our own. A malign force seems at work in our common life that turns every disagreement into an argument, and every argument into a clash of cultures. So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment. That leaves us worried about our nation and our future together.—George W. Bush

It is high time that we stop thinking politically as Republicans and Democrats about elections and start thinking patriotically as Americans about national security based on individual freedom. I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny: Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear!—Senator Margaret Chase (R-Maine) on McCarthyism (1950)

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind. —Nikola Tesla

If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it—Mark Twain

“The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again,”—Meghan McCain (Via the New York Times)

My wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will.—MICHAEL COHEN, FORMER LAWYER FOR DONALD TRUMP

Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? The Egg — laid by a bird that was not a Chicken.—Neil Degrasee Tyson, 2011