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You fight the fights that need fighting.
- from The American President
While Rome’s circuses grew ever crasser and more colossal in an attempt to keep the masses engaged, the empire was crumbling.
- John Walcott, U.S. News & World Report, August 26, 1996
Your best? Losers always whine about their best, winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
- from The Rock
You cannot trample upon people who are innocent, treat them as objects, and not expect retaliation.
- Sylvester Stallone
If you don't let people speak out, they will find ways to act it out.
- Dr. Regina Barreca, University of Connecticut
Every year, 60,000 Americans die of diseases they did not have when they went into the hospital.
- The Coming Epidemic, TBS
I am always a little skeptical when politicians piously proclaim their morality.
-- Bill Clinton, USA Today, August 6, 1996
What we need is a practical system of public-service jobs. The fact is that some of the people we are throwing off the rolls won’t be able to find a place in the economy. (On the Welfare Bill)
-- Sharon Parrott, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Just as with any other human endeavor, the law of diminishing returns applies to taxation: Tax rates that are too high actually bring in less revenues than lower rates.
-- Jack Kemp, USA Today August 6, 1996
Because it breeds fear, terrorism breeds repression. A free society needs to protect civil liberties when they’re most threatened.
-- Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 6, 1996
The first nonessential government service I would shut down is the IRS.
-- Harry Browne, C-Span, Libertarian Presidential Convention
I feel the most shameful thing this country did was to export disease, disability and death by selling our cigarettes to the world.
-- C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General, The Washington Post National Weekly
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