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"And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free."
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"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."

"But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy."

"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

"Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time."

"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."
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"I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston."


"Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues."


"For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us."


"We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet."
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