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# Catherine Pugh

Catherine Elizabeth Pugh (born 10 March 1950) is an American Democratic politician who served as the 50th mayor of Baltimore, Maryland.

## Quotes

* We shouldn’t be closing schools because the heat doesn’t work … If we are getting money from the state we should be using it. We need every penny we can get.
** As quoted in "Baltimore schools have returned millions in state funds for heating repairs" by Luke Broadwater in The Baltimore Sun (4 January 2018)
* It is being paid for by private dollars. … The city is not paying for it; the city has no dollars in this. … I don't know the shape of the bus, I don't know the color of the bus, I don't know the length for the bus. I just know that we're going to provide buses that are going to be paid for by private dollars.
** As quoted in "Baltimore mayor: Taxpayers won't pay to bus students to DC gun rally" by Keith Daniels, FOX 45 Baltimore (8 March 2018); in the same article, when asked by FOX 45 if public money would be used to pay for the trip, she replied: "We'll cross that bridge if we get to it. … This is all young people from all across the country and Baltimore want, to be represented. And if our young people want to go, we want to make sure that they go there safely."

## External links

* Appearances on C-SPAN
# Pío Pico

Pío de Jesús Pico (May 5, 1801 – September 11, 1894) was the last governor of Alta California (now the State of California) under Mexican rule.

## Quotes
### Mexican-American War

During the Mexican–American War, arguing for Mexican troops to defend California:
* What are we to do then? Shall we remain supine, while these daring strangers are overrunning our fertile plains, and gradually outnumbering and displacing us? Shall these incursions go on unchecked, until we shall become strangers in our own land?
** Los Angeles Almanac

### Columbian Exposition

On being invited to appear at the Columbian Exposition:
* If those gringos imagine for a moment they can take me back there and show me in a side tent at two bits a head they are very mistaken.<
** William David Estrada, Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and contested space (2008)
# David Ramsay (historian)

David Ramsay (April 2, 1749 - May 8, 1815) was an American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He was one of the first major historians of the American Revolutionary War. During the Revolution he served in the South Carolina legislature until he was captured by the British. After his release he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782–1783 and again in 1785–1786.

## Quotes
### A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen (1789)

* Citizenship is the inheritance of the children of those who have taken part in the late revolution; but this is confined exclusively to the children of those who were themselves citizens.
* Citizenship by inheritance belongs to none but the children of those Americans, who, having survived the Declaration of Independence, acquired that adventitious character in their own right, and transmitted it to their offspring.
* As a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens.
# Eddie Rispone

Edward Lee Rispone (January 21, 1949 –) is an American businessman and politician from the state of Louisiana. He ran as a Republican Party candidate for Governor of Louisiana in the 2019 election, losing to incumbent Democrat John Bel Edwards.

## Quotes

* We should be number one in the south when it comes to jobs and opportunities, and we are last. I use this analogy: If LSU was last in the SEC, we’d fire everyone from the president of the university down to the poor water boy. It’s time we do the same thing in our state government. We’re going to have a very conservative House and Senate, we need someone in the governor’s seat who can work with them and move our state forward. That’s very simple
** Exclusive — Eddie Rispone on Leftist Democrat John Bel Edwards: ‘We Need Someone Who’s Not Beholden to Special Interests’ (9 November 2019)
# Luis J. Rodriguez

Luis Javier Rodriguez (born 1954) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist.

## Quotes

* I do more non-fiction writing. I have two memoirs, another nonfiction book, and I do lots of essays, journalism, poetry, and reporting. But I love the fiction. As you know I have a novel, a short story collection, and two children’s books. It’s more challenging to write fiction, but I’d like to do more of these. I don’t really prefer one over the other.
** On his writing preferences in “An Interview with Luis J. Rodriguez” (Evanston Public Library; 2011)
* Gangs have always existed—they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We’ve lost this knowledge as a culture. Gangs also exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, teachings, caring, and resources into the emptiness of young peoples’ lives…
** On how gangs might be viewed in “An Interview with Luis J. Rodriguez” (Evanston Public Library; 2011)
* …The root cause of poverty and crime is capitalism itself. We need a society based on cooperation, caring and creativity – not profits, war and social control. For troubled men and women, we need to give people a “chance to live,” as Clarence Darrow once said. To start, we need a government that works for us – not the 1%.
** On what he pinpoints on the reasons for poverty and other social issues in California in “Redefining Democracy in California: An Interview With Luis Rodriguez” in Truthout (2014 May 28)
# Antonio Sabàto Jr.

Antonio Sabàto Jr. (born 29 February 1972) is an Italian-born American actor and model.

## Quotes

* In the past eight years, failed policies have caused our country to deteriorate. Our rights have been trampled, and our security threatened. We are weaker by almost every measure. We are on the wrong path. That is clear even to someone who was not even born here. I came to the United States from Rome, Italy in 1985. I followed all the rules, and finally became a naturalized citizen in 1996. Others who want to come to the U.S. to live and work should follow the same rules. We are a nation of laws for a reason. There should be no shortcuts for those who don’t want to pay or wait
** Speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention (July 18, 2016)
* I think this country allows you freedom of speech. Anybody should be allowed to say whatever they want. When you’re in my business, you can’t talk about [conservative] politics. You just can’t. You’re attacked viciously in a way that I’ve never been attacked before.
** Antonio Sabato Jr. Says Hollywood is Blacklisting Him for Supporting Donald Trump (August 3, 2016)
* I was never a politician. I care about my country. I put God first. For the last seven-and-a-half years, I’ve seen this country led by a leader that’s made mistakes. I spoke my mind about it. But because I’m in the industry, you can’t talk about that. The media and the liberals act the way they act: The will back up the president until the end. It’s been interesting. I’ve had fantastic directors who have said officially to my agents and managers they will never hire me again. They will never even see me for projects. That’s unfair.
** Antonio Sabato Jr. Says Hollywood is Blacklisting Him for Supporting Donald Trump (August 3, 2016)

## External links

* Official Website
# Alex Sanders (politician)

Alexander Mullings Sanders, Jr. (born September 29, 1939) is an American politician from the state of South Carolina. He is the former chief judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals (1983–1992) and was the 19th President of the College of Charleston (1992–2001).

## Quotes
### Eulogy for Pat Conroy (8 March 2016)

* Donald Patrick Conroy, born on October 26, 1945, was the best storyteller of our time- very possibly any time. We will never forget Donald Patrick Conroy. He came to live in South Carolina on orders of the United States Marine Corps. In 1961, his father, Colonel Donald Conroy, a Marine aviator who went by the nickname of the Great Santini- perhaps you've heard of him- received orders to report to the air station in Beaufort, South Carolina. Pat was sixteen years old and received this news with dread. He had been to ten schools in eleven years and Beaufort High School would become his third high school.
* He and The Citadel eventually kissed and made up and became great friends after a rocky relationship following publication of The Lords of Discipline. The Citadel has promised to stop using his books as kindling to heat the barracks.
* Pat told me that The Citadel was one of the big reasons he loved South Carolina and the Lowcountry. While other writers of his generation were going to fraternity or sorority parties, he spent his four college years reading during Evening Study Period. He became a member of the Dock Street Theatre, the Charleston Ballet, and the Symphony. He learned about the beauty and charm of cities by studying Charleston and Beaufort.
* His was a turbulent personality, a complex mixture of joy and despair, but through it all, great love. He loved books and independent bookstores, especially the Old New York Bookshop. Imagine that. He loved his friends, his brothers and sisters, his children and stepchildren, his grandchildren, his legion of readers, who hung on his every word and were enchanted by his characters, the atmosphere of the South Carolina Lowcountry, and his stories- always his stories. But he loved no one more than Sandra, his steadfast wife, Cassandra King. She smoothed out the rough places for him and calmed the turbulence of his life. She loved him unconditionally, as he loved her. She brought him peace at last.
* Pat Conroy may have come to live among us involuntarily, but he stayed among us by choice and enriched us all for more than fifty years. Many of us saw ourselves reflected in his published words. Some of us he entertained grandly. Others of us he outraged greatly. To all of us, he gave a rare gift. He came to us from afar, like Faulkner and like Wolfe. But I respectfully suggest, in ways more real and more loving than either of them, that he gave to us the opportunity, in the phrase of Burns, "to see ourselves as others see us." For this alone, we should be forever grateful to Pat Conroy, our very own prince of tides. "Good-night, sweet prince. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2.
# Kshama Sawant

Kshama Sawant (born October 17, 1972) is an American economist and politician of Indian descent, and Seattle City Council member. She is the first socialist to win a city-wide election in Seattle since Anna Louise Strong was elected to the School Board in 1916.

## Quotes

* When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn't be privately owned.
** Quoted in Sarah Stuteville, "You might be a socialist if… An interview with Kshama Sawant", The Seattle Globalist (October 30, 2012).
* If making sure that workers get out of poverty would severely impact the economy, then maybe we don't need this economy.
** Quoted in Kevin Roose, "Meet the Seattle Socialist Leading the Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage", New York magazine (May 26, 2014).
* We did this. Workers did this. Today's first major victory for 15 will inspire people all over the nation. We need to recognize what happened here in Seattle that led us to this point. 15 was not won at the bargaining table as the so-called "sensible compromise" between workers and business. It was not the result of the generosity of corporations or their Democratic Party representatives in government.
** Kshama Sawant, "Kshama Sawant's Speech at $15 Minimum Wage Vote," YouTube video, 5:28, posted by "Calvin Priest," June 3, 2014.
* As Marxists, we use the capitalist electoral system to win concrete victories for the working class, popularize and build the socialist movement, and expose in real time the limits of the fundamentally undemocratic electoral system we are using. Ultimately, we know we can’t win a socialist transformation of society through the capitalist electoral system because it’s not our system; in fact, it’s designed specifically to prevent systemic change.
** "Kshama Sawant: Why I Signed the Petition for My Own Recall." Jacobin, August 4, 2021

## Quotes about Kshama Sawant

* Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative (SA) party have, for nearly a decade, waged one of the most effective battles against the city’s moneyed elites. She and the SA have adopted a series of unorthodox methods to fight the ruling oligarchs and, in that confrontation, exposed the Democratic Party leadership as craven tools of the billionaire class. Her success is one that should be closely studied and replicated in city after city if we are to dismantle corporate tyranny.
** Chris Hedges, "How to Defeat the Billionaire Class." Scheerpost, May 30, 2022

## External links

* The Most Dangerous Woman in America. Chris Hedges for Truthdig. March 15, 2015.
* The Seattle Socialist. Jacobin. March 24, 2015.
* Meet The Fist-Shaking Socialist Behind America's Highest Minimum Wage. The Huffington Post. May 6, 2015.
* Can Kshama Sawant Build an Actual Socialist City in America? The Nation. June 17, 2015.
# Roderick Sawyer

Roderick T. Sawyer (born April 12, 1963) is the alderman of the 6th ward of the City of Chicago, Illinois.

## Quotes

* You would like to think someone would just take their punishment like they should take their punishment and not try to spread it to other people. It could be entrapment. It could be ensnaring somebody in something they would not normally do.
** January 23, 2019 (Pratt, Gregory; Byrne, John (January 23, 2019). "'The council needs full reform': Aldermen react to report Ald. Daniel Solis wore an FBI wire in Ald. Edward Burke case". The Chicago Tribune. )
* [Wearing a wire is] not the way I was brought up...If I was caught doing something wrong, I’d just take my punishment, deal with the consequences . . . and keep my mouth shut.
** January 23, 2019 (Spielman, Fran (January 23, 2019). "Burke says he’s ‘done nothing wrong’ and no Solis recording can change that". The Chicago Sun-Times. )
# Anthony Scaramucci

Anthony Scaramucci (born January 6, 1964), nicknamed the Mooch, is an American political figure and financier. On July 21 2017, Scaramucci was named to serve as the White House Communications Director but lost the position ten days later.

## Quotes

* I'm going to fire everybody — that’s how. You're either going to stop leaking, or you're going to get fired. If I've got to get the thing down to me and Sarah Huckabee, then the leaking will stop.
** Quoted in "Scaramucci on Leaks: 'I'm Going to Fire Everybody'", by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times (July 25, 2017).
* When I said we were brothers from the podium … some brothers are like Cain and Abel, other brothers can fight with each other and get along. I don't know if this is reparable or not, that will be up to the president.
** Quoted in "Tensions flare between Scaramucci, Priebus amid leak allegations", Fox News (July 27, 2017); referring to then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
* It's absolutely, completely and totally reprehensible. And as you know from the Italian expression: The fish stinks from the head down. But I can tell you two fish that don't stink, and that's me and the President.
** Quoted in "Scaramucci: 'If Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that'" by Dan Merica, Elizabeth Landers and Eugene Scott, CNN (July 27, 2017).
* When I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in a tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are. So if Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that. But let me tell you about myself. I'm a straight shooter and I'll go right to the heart of the matter.
** Quoted in "Scaramucci: 'If Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that'" by Dan Merica, Elizabeth Landers and Eugene Scott, CNN (July 27, 2017).
* I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I'll fire tomorrow. I'll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he'll be asked to resign very shortly. ... Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac ... 'Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months'.
** Quoted in "Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon", by Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker (July 27, 2017). Later confirmed by Scaramucci.
* I'm not Steve Bannon, I'm not trying to suck my own cock. I'm not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I'm here to serve the country.
** Quoted in "Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon", by Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker (July 27, 2017). Later confirmed by Scaramucci.
# Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Johan Malmsteen (/ˈɪŋveɪ ˈmɑːlmstiːn/; born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck, Swedish pronunciation: [lâːʂ ˈjuːhan ˈʏŋvɛ lânːɛrbɛk] on 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist. He first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical playing style in heavy metal, and has released 22 studio albums in a career spanning over 40 years.

## Quotes about Yngwie Malmsteen

* An import from Sweden, Yngwie J. Malmsteen specializes in what many regard as “Bach and Roll,” or neoclassical rock—a style of music that features furiously fast scalar and arpeggiated sequences reminiscent of the Bach and Paganini virtuoso organ and violin works written in the 18th century. [...] Yngwie’s staggering virtuosity, as exemplified on the track “Far Beyond the Sun,” inspired countless guitarists to refine their alternate-picking and sweep-picking chops. Some even went as far as to scallop their fretboards, carving out the wood between the frets in a crescent, as Malmsteen does, to facilitate playing with a lighter touch. The mass appeal that Yngwie achieved among guitarists in the mid-to-late Eighties opened up the market for other burning shredders like Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine, Paul Gilbert and Jason Becker, among others.
** Dale Turner and Dave Rubin of Guitar Player (April 14, 2020)
# Christopher Dawson

Christopher Henry Dawson (12 October 1889 – 25 May 1970) was an English Catholic historian, independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and emphasized the necessity on how Western culture must be in continuity with Christianity to not stagnate and deteriorate.

## Quotes

* As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
** The Judgement of the Nations (1942), pp. 9-10.
* I learnt more during my school-days from my visits to the Cathedral at Winchester than I did from the hours of religious instruction in school. That great church with its tombs of the Saxon kings and the mediaeval statesmen-bishops gave one a greater sense of the magnitude of the religious element in our culture and the depths of its roots in our national life than anything one could learn from books.
** Understanding Europe (Doubleday Image Books: 1960), pp. 223-24.

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# Robert Smalls

Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915), born into slavery, was an American businessman, publisher, and politician.

## Quotes

* My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an equal chance in the battle of life.
** South Carolina Constitutional Convention (1895)
* Good morning, sir! I've brought you some of the old United States guns, sir!
** Upon surrender of the USS Planter to the USS Onward (May 13, 1862)
* I ask that every colored man in the North who has a vote to cast would cast that vote for the regular Republican Party and thus bury the Democratic Party so deep that there will not be seen even a bubble coming from the spot where the burial took place
** September 12, 1912 Letter, expressing concerns over the Presidential election
# Daniel Solis

Daniel "Danny" Solis is a municipal politician who was appointed as the alderman of the 25th Ward of the Chicago by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1996.

## Quotes

* Solis: I want to get a good massage, with a nice ending. Do you know any good places?...What kind of women do they got there? Caldero: Asian. Solis: Oh good. Good, good, good. I like Asian.
** July 2015, Federal Bureau of Investigation wiretap of phone call to political operative Roberto Caldero (Seidel, Jon; Spielman, Fran; Brown, Mark; Novak, Tim (January 29, 2019). "Viagra, sex acts, use of a luxury farm: Feds detail investigation of Ald. Solis". The Chicago Sun-Times. )