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“Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.”
Statement of 1876, in The Diary of James A. Garfield: 1875-1877 (1983), edited by Harry James Brown and Frederick D. Williams. p. 396
1870s
Context: Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
Twitter, 12 June 2016 https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/742034549232766976, after the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
2010s, 2016, June
Television interview on MTV's Enough is Enough (19 April 1994) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=49995
1990s
Context: When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly. That is, when we set up this country, abuse of people by Government was a big problem. So if you read the Constitution, it's rooted in the desire to limit the ability of — Government's ability to mess with you, because that was a huge problem. It can still be a huge problem. But it assumed that people would basically be raised in coherent families, in coherent communities, and they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare.
2011-05-15 interview on * Meet the Press
2011-05-15
NBC, quoted in * Gingrich Calls GOP Budget 'Right Wing Social Engineering'
PBS
2011-05-16
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/05/gingrich-keeps-ryan-budget-at-arms-length.html
2011-05-28
2010s
quote from Stella, reacting in the artist-talk on Donald Judd who emphasis the 'whole' of an art work
Source: Quotes, 1960 - 1970, Questions to Stella and Judd' - September 1966, p. 119
The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese (February 1986).
Source: Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi (2017), p. 67
“He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate.”
Source: Flowers from the Storm
1. maximize choices for every American (and for the U.S. as a whole) as much as possible;
2. guarantee a fair start in life for every American;
3. maximize every American's human potential as much as possible;
4. be of genuine help to everyone in the developing world.
Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 1, "A Creative and Practical Politics," p. 6.
