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"I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong."
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"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."

"The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."

"I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990."

"The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals."

"If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city."

"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."

"If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds."

"Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts."

"Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government."

"Public influence is the real government of the world."
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"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."


"It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't."


"Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street."


"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."


"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."
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