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"Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives."
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"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."

"In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!"

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"

"Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments."

"Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation"."

"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will."
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"I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once."


"If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it."


"Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?"


"I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around."


"Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box."


"I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public."


"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."
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