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"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true."

"This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director."

"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

"The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption."

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."
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"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."

"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."

"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government."

"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!""

"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter."
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