Advice sent to President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt (2 December 1932)
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“The kids are turned off from politics, they say. Most of 'em don't even want to hear about it.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Context: The kids are turned off from politics, they say. Most of 'em don't even want to hear about it. All they want to do these days is lie around on waterbeds and smoke that goddamn marrywanna... yeah, and just between you and me Fred thats probably all for the best.
“I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs gay!”
Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker
"Alex Jones: The Gay Bomb Rant" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpiUfb7adPE&feature=youtu.be&t=5m39s, October 2015. <br class="br">Context: What do you think tap water is? It's a gay bomb, baby. And I'm not saying people didn't naturally have homosexual feelings. I'm not even getting into it, quite frankly. I mean, give me a break. Do you think I'm like, oh, shocked by it, so I'm up here bashing it because I don't like gay people? I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs gay! Do you understand that? I'm sick of being social engineered, it's not funny!
Elijah Cummings (1951–2019) U.S. Representative from Maryland
Speeech at the funeral of Freddie Gray (April 27, 2015)
Source: [Cobb, Jelani, October 18, 2019, What Elijah Cummings Meant to Baltimore, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-elijah-cummings-meant-to-baltimore, New Yorker, New York, October 20, 2019]
“Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.”
Fran Lebowitz book Social Studies
"Parental Guidance".
Social Studies (1981)
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 2 Thanksgiving
On Calendars
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Introduction
The Disappearance of Childhood (1982)
Context: Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Obama says Clinton has foreign policy like Bush's http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/07/26/us-usa-politics-democrats-idUSN2619692620070726 26 July 2007 <br class="br">2007
