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Jose Saramago

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Jose Saramago
"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."

Content

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Jose Saramago
"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."

Life

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Jose Saramago
"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."

Travel

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Jose Saramago
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."

Being

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Jose Saramago
"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."

Friendship

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Jose Saramago
"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."

World

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Jose Saramago
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."

World

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Jose Saramago
"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."

Exploration

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Jose Saramago
"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."

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Jose Saramago
"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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