“[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore … never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge William Johnson, 1823
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“I was a liberal Democrat when I was young. I used to wear a green Army jacket with political buttons on it — for Hubert Humphrey, Birch Bayh, John F. Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. I even wore that jacket in my high school yearbook photo. It’s a magic green jacket. I can put it on [...]
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“Unless we send the Navy down deep to blow up the well and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and debris, which may become necessary – you don’t have to use a nuclear weapon by the way, I’ve seen all that stuff, just blow it up – unless we’re going [...]
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“Individualism must disappear!” – Che Guevara, 1961
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“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship [...]
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“Every business in America today is in a much better position than they were, not just 18 months ago, but than I think many of them expected to be at this point.” – Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner
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“Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should [...]
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“Our country disappears people. It tortures people. It has the blood of as many as one million Iraqi civilians — men, women, children, the infirmed — on its hands. You’ll forgive me if I just can’t quite dredge up the requisite amount of outrage over Barack Obama’s pastor,” – Chris Hayes of The Nation, on [...]
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“We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” – Former Republican Senate Majority Leader and current lobbyist Trent Lott.
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“There is no poetic license in New Orleans.” – Legendary Louisiana lobbyist Charlie Smith, after once being arrested for violating an Orleans Parish ordinance against selling poetry without a permit.
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