It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the state__ dominant political faction, that would reduce Kansas Democrats to third-party status, and that would wreck what remained of the state__ progressive legacy. We are accustomed to thinking of the backlash as a phenomenon of the seventies (the busing riots, the tax revolt) or the eighties (the Reagan revolution); in Kansas the great move to the right was a story of the nineties, a story of the present.
What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Quote Detail
In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the state__ dominant political faction, that would reduce Kansas Democrats to third-party status, and that would wreck what remained of the state__ progressive legacy. We are accustomed to thinking of the backlash as a phenomenon of the seventies (the busing riots, the tax revolt) or the eighties (the Reagan revolution); in Kansas the great move to the right was a story of the nineties, a story of the present.
Quick Answer
What this quote page tells you
This canonical quote page keeps the full saying, the attributed author, any linked work, and the topic tags together so the quote can be cited from one stable URL.
Related Quotes
More quote cards from the same area
Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.
They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.