"In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse..." - Quote by Amy Poehler
In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.
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“In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?”
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.”
“Great people do things before they're ready...You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something.”
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“I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.”
“An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.”
“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.”
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“It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.”
“I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.”
“Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand”