"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."

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"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."

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"In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office."

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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."

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"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."

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"I was considering running for political office."

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"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."

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"Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues."

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"I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street."

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"As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this."

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"Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November."

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"Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don't know how many of you noticed this, but the wording of the Oath of Office is written in the Constitution, so you can't fool around with it-and Bush refused to read it. The Oath of Office says something about, I promise to do this, that, and the other thing, and Bush added the words, so help me God. Well, that's illegal: he's not President, if anybody cares."

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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

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"Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections."

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"The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history."

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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

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"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."

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"Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns."

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"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival."

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"My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I can do something about it. So even if the U.S. was responsible for 2 percent of the violence in the world instead of the majority of it, it would be that 2 percent I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment. That is, the ethical value of one's actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences. It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century."

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