Huffington Post has the interview with Jimmy Carter HERE: “I think the big change is that the Israeli leaders have decided to abandon the two-state solution. Their policy now is to confiscate Palestinian territory, and they’ve announced publicly that it the Palestinians have to recognize not just Israel but Israel as a Jewish state, even [...]

“When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing… You can’t defend yourself when you’re militarily occupying someone else’s land. That’s not defense. Call it what you like, it’s [...]

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth….the opposite of poverty is justice” ~Bryan Stevenson This one just hits you in the gut.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.  Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of the country.  We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, [...]

“How about you OCCUPY a job. How about working? Working. I know that’s tough.” ~Rudy Giuliani Just a little reminder of what the Republican party thinks about the #Occupy movement that has fizzled out of visibility from the masses.  You had people protesting peacefully against a system that protects the rich with special loopholes, a system that [...]

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these [...]

“If I wasn’t studying psychopaths in prison, I’d do it at the stock exchange.” ~Dr. Robert Hare This great quote reminded me of a recent study that found Wall Street employees were 10x more likely to be clinical psychopaths than the rest of the populace.  True story; more on that HERE. Hervery M. Cleckley defined [...]

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide for those who have too little.” ~FDR, 2nd inaugural address One would think we would learn from history.  The man was president for FOUR terms … he turned America into one [...]

“Mitt Romney’s foreign policy is like the ex-girlfriend Mitt tries to crop out of his profile picture, but everyone can still see her arm.” ~Chris Rock

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose [...]