And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
- Mario Savio

"Illegitimi non carborundum!"

It just aired during the world series!

-That to secure these Rights, ...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, ...in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. -Committee of Five

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

Antonio Gramsci. The actual quote was written sometime between 1929-1935, specifically in Prison Notebook 3.

How can we support anyone remaining under the purview of the executive branch who may still be advocating for reasonable government?

Nah, just another hoomaan with a somewhat dark Quark quote.

You're overlooking something. Humans used to be a lot worse than the Ferengi: slavery, concentration camps, interstellar wars. We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you... we're better.

I think I figured out why Humans don't like Ferengi. The way I see it, Humans used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget.

"... turning Hill Valley's delapitated courthouse into a beautiful Casino/Hotel."
"No, this isn't hell, but I can't imagine hell being much worse "

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." - Herman Melville

for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." Wisdom from 1776

What is best thing US citizens can be focusing on right now?

Comparison is the thief of joy. At a certain point, it no longer makes any sense to try to rank them.

Too subtle. Pretty sure they'll miss the reference.

As fortold in Revelations 6 - "And lo, I beheld a pale couch, and the rider wore mascara. And he went forth conquering (but mostly by accident)"

If I may suggest one update: "Patron Stain"

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

Antonio Gramsci

The specific "monsters" phrasing is not Gramsci's. Original quote from Prison Notebook 3, sometime between 1929-1935.