Quotes LXXX



"If it were not for Russia the USSR would still exist."
-- Gorbachev
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"I think the days of anybody saying the United States would do anything unilateral are over."
-- Ari Fleischer, Oct 3, 2003
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"Literally from April 2nd of this year—it’s a whole new world of financial regulation in which, essentially, all of the U.S. regulatory bodies and all U.S. companies are put under international regulation, international supervision. It really amounts to a global economic government”
-- Dick Morris
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“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin."
-- Ernest Hemingway
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"Terrorism is an act of the weak. So is walking around the airport in our socks."
-- Via Twitter
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Fighting against the government is like fanning the flames of a dying fire
-- John Cage
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“I’m going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened,
-- Bush
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It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.
-- Lawrence Durrell
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I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.
-- Harry Browne
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"There is absolutely no truth to the rumors of liquidity problems."
"Bear Stearns's balance sheet, liquidity and capital remain strong."
-- Alan Schwartz, CEO, Bear Stearns, March 10, 2008.
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"Our capital and liquidity positions have never been stronger."
-- Dick Fuld, CEO, Lehman Brothers, September 10, 2008
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"Not just the Chinese government, but every investor can have absolute confidence in the soundness of investments in the United States"
-- Barack Obama, CEO, United States of America, March 15, 2009
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"All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end..."
-- George Bush, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eMta5-wy4
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Our press corps is proof of the existence of Satan
-- Glenn Greenwald, via Twitter
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"Pleased to meet you…Hope you guess my name."
--Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones
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"Michael Eisner decides I can't make a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr [because] they'll be rioting at the gates of Disneyland!, that's bullshit! But that's what the new world order is."
-- Oliver Stone
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"People occasionally appreciate the truth in the same way they appreciate a good joke. It breaks the monotony."
-- "Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in France and Politics", William Bonner and Lila Rajiva
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"... however confident you are about your skills, you are never quite sure how divine you actually are."
-- Bette Midler
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" I mean, if no one's paying for gravity, then how on earth is it going to be sustainable?!"
--Tim O'Reilly, via Twitter
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"...many of the best political arguments have been won by humans who haven't the slightest idea what they're talking about, it should also be noted that many of these people possessed large armies"
-- David, http://www.moonofalabama.org/2009/03/upside-down-and-backwards.html
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“I hired actors to show the people this, but the powers that be proved cannier. They hired the audience…”
-- http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/2009/03/09/translation-confessions-of-russian-liberal-1/
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“He who does not carry demonic seeds within him will never give birth to a new world.”
-- Ernst Schertel, Magic: History, Theory and Practice (1923)
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“The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship,"
-- Wikileaks
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“I think it would be very unwise, from my perspective, to start having [torture] commissions, boards, tribunals, until we find out what the facts are.”
--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
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"War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished, and it will be no defence to say ‘I was just following orders'"
-- George W Bush 2003.
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"You can only be aghast for so long"
-- Ray McGovern
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"When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror."
-- Flannery O'Connor
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I can see you were driven out... Was it the isms? Mammonism, Futurism, Communism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Nihilism... skepticism, Socialism, Zionism. Or was it just egoism?
-- Heimat, Disk 2
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"So I said good-bye to government, and I gave my reason; That a really good religion, is a form of treason."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
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"A lobby is like a night flower: it thrives in the dark and dies in the sun"
-- Steve Rosen, AIPAC, indicted for spying for Israel
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Be sand, not oil in the engine of the world
-- Heimat II Disk 2
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Nobody knows how famous I am.
-- J. Adam Moore
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Posted: Fri - May 22, 2009 at 02:56 PM            

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