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"We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians."
"Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls."
"My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today."
"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."
"The dream was not to put one black family in the White house, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house."
"We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances."
"The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America."
"The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country."
"I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy."
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