Quotations 
Quotation: McCain’s experience
“I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I’ve been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job […]
Quotation: Justice
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” -Cornel West, from Call and Response, a documentary about global slavery. (Hat tip: God’s Politics)
Quotations: Community Organizing
Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor. -origin unknown (Hat tip: Mudflats) “Politicians should thank community organizers, not insult them. As a longtime organizer, I’ve seen time and time again that we are the ones who make government work for the poor, the powerless and the marginalized. Politicians’ policies and promises would amount […]
Quotations: The 15,000
Whenever I hear the figure 15,000 cited as the number of journalists covering the DNC in Denver, that “What exactly would you say you do here?” line from Office Space comes to mind. Justin Peters of the Columbia Journalism Review fills us in with this humorous account. Here’s the lede: There are apparently 15,000 journalists attending […]
Quotations: Jim Wallis on abortion
With silly season kicking into overdrive this week, it’s probably a good time to prayerfully consider this nonpartisan, prophetic view of an issue that will be politicized and manipulated plenty as November draws closer. “Symbolic positions of ‘pro-life’ and ‘pro-choice’ have replaced the actual saving of unborn lives. Abortion, as a volatile and highly emotional […]
Married love
“So much emphasis, certainly in movies and pop culture, is placed on falling in love and getting married. But then everyone kind of shuts up and doesn’t really look at what happens during married life, and how married love is very different from the premarital love that got you to the altar.” -Susan Squires, author