"I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed."

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

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"Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization."

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"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

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"I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."

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"Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy."

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"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."

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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

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"I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem."

Time

"One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well."

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"If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here."

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"There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table."

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"But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania."

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"I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways."

Environment

"We will not lose this election for lack of money."

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"I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax."

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"Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on."

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