Thoughts & Quotes (23th October 2016)

Politics

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

-Gore Vidal

Administration

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.

-Rick Santorum

Diplomacy

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

-Cynthia P. Schneider