"What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government."

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"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."

Larry Niven, American Writer

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"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."

John Adams, American President

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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

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"For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism."

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"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."

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"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."

Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher

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"I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government."

Scott Brown, American Politician

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"The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that."

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American Writer

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"There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."

Katherine Graham, American Publisher

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"On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory."

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"Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals."

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"That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income."

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"Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government."

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"Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place."

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"Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together."

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"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."

"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

"For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism."

"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."

"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."

"The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that."

"There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."

"On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory."

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"The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work."

"I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped."

"I am not interested in splitting the white vote."

"Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city."

"Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals."

"That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income."

"Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government."

"Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place."

"Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together."

"What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government."