Quote by Eric Liu
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, youll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a moral value – affordable health care is a moral value etc., – then youll appeal to red-state voters. – Eric Liu

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Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, its usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. – Eric Liu

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Politics
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Eric Liu
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We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. – Eric Liu

Category:
Politics
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Eric Liu
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Throughout this countrys history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. – Eric Liu

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History
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Eric Liu
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Other Quotes from
Health
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Its time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. Its time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow – building a health care system that works for all Americans. – Ron Wyden

Category:
Health

I dont think healthcares a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is. – Adam Carolla

Category:
Health

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education. – Kathleen Sebelius

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Health

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law. – Paul Krugman

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Health

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Im not confused, Im just well mixed. – Robert Frost

Category:
Confusion

Architecture is politics. – Mitchell Kapor

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architecture

If you want to build a ship, dont drum up people to collect wood and dont assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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work

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. – Ambrose Bierce

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