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All Quotes Collection
"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
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"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"
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"I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less."
39
"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl."
39
"The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice."
30
"When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe."
53
"Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities."
36
"The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader."
31
"When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise."
40
"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope."
63
"All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days."
37
"Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so."
42
"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."
Tax,
41
"The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living."
28
"I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is."
55
"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."
38
"I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important."
36
"Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class."
39
"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
42
"For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most."
38
"Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd."
34
"It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before."
19
"Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity."
28
"Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist."
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