The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.