Notably Quotable: Wake Up And…

“Wake up & smell the covfefe!!!”

— Protest sign at anti-Trump London protest.

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“You said that your investigation’s work ‘speaks for itself.’ It doesn’t.”
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“Snit Hits The Fan”

New York Daily News headline over latest Trump breakdown.

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“The entire foreign policy is based on a single unstable individual’s reaction to perceptions of slights or flattery. If someone says something nice about him, they are our friend; if they say something unkind, if they don’t kiss the ring, they are our enemy.”

— Henry Kissinger, Siege review: Michael Wolff’s Trump tale is Fire and Fury II – fire harder

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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

— Voltaire

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“Our economy takes endlessly from workers, asking more and more from them in ever-tighter time frames, even as employers offer less and less security and lower wages in return.” 

― Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

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“Louis Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country or we can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”

— Louis Brandeis

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“I’m not looking to overthrow the American government, the corporate state already has.”

—John Trudell, Native American musician/activist.