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"Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?"
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"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
Losing

"The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."
Decision-Making

"Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy."
Acceptance

"The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members."
Peace

"Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam."
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"Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi."
Politics

"Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout."
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"Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?"
Politics

"I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered."
Politics

"I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission."
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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."
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"Politicians look for interests not people."
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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."
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"Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content."
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"Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?"
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"The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself."
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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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