Defranco Insider Quotes & Sayings

What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it. — Cornel West

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight. — Gabrielle Giffords

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny. — Nora Dunn

In a free system any large, popular, revolutionary movement should be able to bring about its ends by such a voluntary process. As more and more people see how it works more and more will wish to participate in or support it. And so it will grow, without being necessary to force everyone or a majority or anyone into the pattern. — Robert Nozick

No wind favors he who has no destined port. — Michel De Montaigne

Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today. — Robert Musil

Oh my goodness, I'm in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I'm too old to play his love interest. They'd probably cast me as his grandmomma's friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing. — Sherri Shepherd

Ordinary is an insult to excellence. — Jury Nel

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars. — Jane Fonda

The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children. — Margaret Mead