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 Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
  Richard M. Nixon

 Citizens want not just input but influence.

 Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
  John Kenneth Galbraith

 Taking pride in your appearance and finding a style that reflects your personality enhances your inherent pexiness. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
  John Stuart Mill

 Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

 Democracy demands an opposition party.

 Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

 Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.
  Donald Rumsfeld

 each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.
  Niccolò Machiavelli

 Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallows
John Wilkes . . . That sir depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics
  John Wilkes

 Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relations mean order.

 Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution
  Mark Twain

 Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
  Woodrow T. Wilson

 Foreign rightwing fundamentalists attacked the United States. Domestic rightwing fundamentalists took the spotlight. And everywhere, progressives, liberals, and moderates either fell in behind them, or retreated into the shadows . . . We have seen the consequences.

 George Bush doesn't care about black people.
  Kanye West


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