We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news. David Horsey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn’t drawing cartoons, I’d be writing stories. David Horsey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom. David Horsey Read Quote
