"If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook."

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"If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook."

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

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Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

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"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."

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"Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems."

Time

"Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy."

Decision-Making

"But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House."

Being

"As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them."

People

"22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush."

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"The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth."

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"It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%."

History

"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

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"The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush."

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