Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy. David Horsey More Quotes by David Horsey More Quotes From David Horsey Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy. David Horsey bullying nature simple life As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats. David Horsey drive feel anger long Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers. David Horsey day imagination hero work From China and India to Turkey and Brazil, when women have gotten access to education, to family planning and to a vital place in the economy, greater prosperity has followed. And when women are free to speak and learn, they temper the extremes of ideology and fanaticism and raise sons who are less likely to become human bombs. David Horsey women family speak education Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back. David Horsey great good universe evil Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now. David Horsey right global-warming distance ocean I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd. David Horsey communication business simple time Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and to demand unconditional surrender. Seldom, though, is it quite that clear cut. David Horsey vision evil war world When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons. David Horsey solution government problem said It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing. David Horsey fake surprise political world Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters. David Horsey us say saying become Yes, the disruption of the Internet can be blamed for the destruction of the business model that once made journalism a thriving, well-paying enterprise, but it has also created an array of new tools for reporting. Somebody will eventually figure out how to make online newspapers profitable - I hope. David Horsey journalism internet business hope One of the least appealing aspects of modern presidential candidates is that, to avoid saying anything that might prove to be an embarrassing, costly blunder, they cling to a rigid set of talking points that reveal as little as possible about what they really think and who they really are. David Horsey saying think prove talking We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news. David Horsey daily day police work I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment. David Horsey away new always unemployment If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites. David Horsey great journalism political serious Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person. David Horsey true person you drawing I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job. David Horsey your job go approach Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance. David Horsey rest climate-change research change The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous. David Horsey just cool rap may
