“The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.”— Jean M. Twenge, theatlantic.com
“Go Republican Senators, Go! Get there after waiting for 7 years. Give America great healthcare!”— Donald Trump, twitter.com
“Years ago I wished everyone paid attention to politics. I was wrong.”— Shoshana Weissmann, twitter.com
“There is a lot of pain. And we’ve got to understand that reality. And then tell these people that their problems are not caused by some Mexican making eight dollars an hour picking strawberries.”— Bernie Sanders, newyorker.com
“Shortly before entering the Senate early Friday, John McCain promised a show. Then, he delivered.”— CNN, twitter.com
“In a functioning democracy, the chief job of a politician is to be a teacher.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“To accept the insanity of our political discourse and the violence in our world as normal is to declare our own insanity.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“Donald Trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign, and that is why he won.”— Jared Kushner, twitter.com
“In the wake of Trump's presidency, increasing number of migrants from Central America are choosing to stay in Mexico”— CNN, twitter.com
“Whenever politicians on both sides inch towards peace, something nasty seems to happen”— The Economist, twitter.com
“Republican Senators were served a nice lunch at the White House today, but I'm pretty sure all they swallowed was their pride.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com
“The door to bipartisanship is open right now… Republican leadership only needs to walk through it.”— Chuck Schumer, twitter.com
“The Senate is delaying their vote on the Healthcare Bill. The suspense may kill us before lack of insurance does.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com
“steelmanning makes you a better person. It makes you more charitable, forcing you to assume, at least for a moment, that the people you’re arguing with, much as you ferociously disagree with them or even dislike them, are people who might have something to teach you. It makes you more compassionate,…”— Chana Messinger, theatlantic.com
“The form of the state itself always means dictatorship; it's just a question of how democratically its legitimation is organized.”— P.M., amazon.com
“Already, Trump is causing Obama to go down in popular memory as a far-left progressive and not a centrist who deported millions and killed hundreds of thousands in wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and elsewhere. Sure, Trump is worse than Obama in a lot of ways, but the whole point is that we…”— Peter Gelderloos, theanarchistlibrary.org
“I probably like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz.”— Al Franken, amazon.com