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David Dinkins

"We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that."

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"We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that."

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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."

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"The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer."

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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

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"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"

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"A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies."

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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"

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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

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"To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you."

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"I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs."
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"We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time."
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"I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs."
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"The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are."
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"There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do."
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"As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then."
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"So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare."
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"Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished."
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