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"If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000."
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"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."

"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."

"One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."

"I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk."

"Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits."

"What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?"

"President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown."

"It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created."

"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
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"Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy."


"Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi."


"The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970."


"Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout."


"I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission."


"I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered."


"The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members."


"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
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