“Although I cannot go into detail about the ongoing review of these and other state-law changes, I can assure you that it will be thorough — and it will be fair.”
Eric H. Holder,Jr., Attorney General of the United StatesSavage, Charlie. "Holder Signals Tough Review of New State Laws on Voting." The New York Times 13 December, 2011: online edition.
"Rarely have so few imposed such damage on so many. When five conservative members of the Supreme Court handed for-profit corporations the right to secretly flood political campaigns with tidal waves of cash on the eve of an election, they moved America closer to outright plutocracy, where political power derived from wealth is devoted to the protection of wealth."
Bill Moyers
"The reason the eurozone is governed by rules is that few of its member-states – least of all its wealthier North European ones –have any appetite for fiscal union. Crudely, rules (gouvernance) exist because common fiscal institutions (gouvernement) do not. But rules are no substitute for common institutions. And tighter rules do not amount to greater fiscal integration."
Simon Tilford and Philip Whyte, Tilford is chief economist at the Centre for European Reform and Whyte is a senior research fellow at the CER.Centre for European Reform. (2011) Why stricter rules threaten the eurozone [Pamphlet, PDF medium]. Tilford, Simon and Philip Whyte: Authors.
“Let me just say, if Newt Gingrich is the smartest guy in the room, leave that room.”
Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe on MSNBC.
