{"author":"Michelle Templet","author_id":"Michelle+Templet","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"Obama's plan for 'change': Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first time!","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["humor","politics","satire"],"id":2934,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"},{"text":"Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["democracy","politics","socialism"],"id":5625,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"},{"text":"The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["philosophy","satire","science"],"id":10653,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"},{"text":"I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["morality","philosophy","regret"],"id":48230,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"},{"text":"The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["human-rights","liberty","philosophy"],"id":72009,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"},{"text":"If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["civil-disobedience","freedom-of-speech","politics"],"id":88958,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"},{"text":"The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["capitalism","philosophy","politics"],"id":100649,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"},{"text":"If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["free-thinking","philosophy","reason"],"id":107703,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"},{"text":"My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["humor","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","satire"],"id":130348,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"},{"text":"Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your strength, because you have survived!","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["healing-insights","inspirational","mental-illness","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","survivors"],"id":180102,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}