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"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
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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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"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."

"I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large."

"I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun."

"There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things."

"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."

"When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view."

"I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view."

"I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships."
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