"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."

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"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."

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"The weaker the country, the stronger the smile."

Howard Koch, American Screenwriter

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"I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world."

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"There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views."

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"I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead."

Frank Black, American Musician

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"A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done."

Alan Autry, American Actor

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"And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again."

George Takei, American Actor

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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition."

Brian Eno, British Musician

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"Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle."

Bill Cullen, American Entertainer

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"Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that."

Daniel Berrigan, American Clergyman

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"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States."

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"Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy."

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"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility."

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"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."

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"The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people."

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"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."

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"In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority."

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"Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more."

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"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."

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"The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow."

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