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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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"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."
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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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"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."
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"When you're out of office, you can be a statesman."
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."
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"It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President "polarizing" after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years in office."
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"The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out."
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"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."
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"The office of presbyters is a permanent one."
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"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."
History
"International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places."
Politics
"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."
Office
"I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one has to estimate relative justices. But the use of violence and the creation of some degree of injustice can only be justified on the basis of the claim and the assessment-which always ought to be undertaken very, very seriously and with a good deal of scepticism that this violence is being exercised because a more just result is going to be achieved."
Justice
"For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us."
Society
"The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important."
Activism
"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."
Consequence
"In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it."
Politics
"The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the opposite."
Economics
"People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction."
Politics
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