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"As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government."
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"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."
"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."
"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."
"The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government."
"In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government."
"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
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"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."
"What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine."
"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
"I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family."
"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
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