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"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
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"The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together."
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"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."
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"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."
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"National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government."
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"A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both."
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"If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy."
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"I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government."
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"The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it."
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"The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated."
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"The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here."
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"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
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"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
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"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."
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"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
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"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
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"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
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"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
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"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
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"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
Experience

"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
Literature
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