Scott Rhee

“The reason Trump was able to get away with calling his rivals ugly, with insulting prisoners of war, with belittling women and using vulgar language, was that Americans, particularly conservatives, were becoming numb to the outrage culture.”
― Tim Alberta, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

“Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Freedom

“The day I can't pull something useful out of my ass is the day I quit sticking things up my ass.”
― Sean Gibson

“One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion. Would-be autocrats often use economic crises, natural disasters, and especially security threats—wars, armed insurgencies, or terrorist attacks—to justify antidemocratic measures.”
― Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future