The unique perspective and provocative opinions of Joe O’Neill
Quoteworthy
“Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.”—Jose Marti.
“A clear message to the Iranian authorities that their crackdown on peaceful critics and human rights defenders will not go unchallenged.”—Amnesty International statement on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Iran’s imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi.
“Victimization isn’t a competition. Why must one form of suffering negate another?”—Shadi Hamid,
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadows behind.”—Nathaniel Hawthorne.
“Some problems can’t be solved, only managed.”—Peggy Noonan,
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”—Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo.
“It is perverse to allow a Speaker to be removed without having been defeated by someone who had more votes. But the institution chiefly in need of fixing is not the U.S. House. It is the Republican Party.”–National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru.
“A legislative terrorist.”—How Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, a co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus, has been branded by former House Speaker John Boehner.
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”—William Shakespeare.
“If you want to know what it looks like when democracy is in trouble, this is what it looks like.”—Daniel Ziblatt, author of “Tyranny of the Minority.”
“It’s something (DeSantis) has been good at—figuring out ways to take action on issues that conservatives care about, or setting the tone for what conservatives should be doing.”—UCF political scientists Aubrey Jewett.
“People who say it can’t be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”—George Bernard Shaw.
“We as a country have to make decisions. A vast majority of Americans support reasonable firearm solutions and support reasonable regulations.”—Mayor Jane Castor.