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"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."

"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."

"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."

"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."

"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."

"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."

"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."

"And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California."
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"I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more."

"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."

"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."

"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."
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