Chapter 4 Noli Me Tangere Quotes & Sayings

I am ashamed and deeply distressed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles. — Wendell Berry

I do want to be very clear: I see our nuclear deterrent as absolutely core insurance for our national security. — Andrea Leadsom

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes. — Nadine Velazquez

If Jefferson's leadership is to be set apart from others similarly situated later on, it should not be because he was inclined to finesse a frontal assault on the old [Federalist] governmental establishment, but because he transformed national politics so thoroughly without being forced into any make-or-break confrontation with it. Jefferson pursued the reconstruction of American government and politics relentlessly, and the regime he created in the end was profoundly different from the one he displaced. Yet, the most remarkable aspect of his transformation is how little resistance he encountered in the process from the institutions and interests previously attached to the old order. Jefferson's authority to reconstruct proved singularly disarming and all-encompassing. — Stephen Skowronek

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. — Aung San Suu Kyi