Quote of the Day for 2016-06-16

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."

— Mario Cuomo (1932-2015) Quoted by Fred Barnes in "Meet Mario the Moderate," The New Republic (April 8, 1985)

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton walking away from his airplane as they head to a campaign rally at Amway Arena in Orlando, Florida (October 20, 2008) Photograph by Joe Raedle

Quote of the Day for 2016-06-02

"War is merely the continuation of politics by other means."

— Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) On War, chapter 1, section 24 (1832)

The Second of May 1808 in Madrid by Francisco Goya (1814)

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-24

"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."

— Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Journal entry, "Cambridge, July 1842"

Portrait of a young man representing the nativist ideal of the Know Nothing party (1854)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-19

"That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience."

— James Cameron (1911-1985) "Spain Under Franco," News Chronicle, March 3, 1954

A Moscow woman rests her bag on a discarded symbol of Communism (Nov 1, 1990) Photo by Alexander Nemenov

Quote of the Day 2015-08-24

"When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."

— Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Attributed

The seagull attraction at Banksy's Dismaland Bemusement Park. (2015)