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- When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to…
- It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.
- You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.
- A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and…
- If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a…
- If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests,…
- Humor itself is a great disinfectant. It enables people to listen.
- One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that…
- I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.
- I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.
- Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy…
- The world of politics is divided between people who are introverts - who lose a little bit of energy out of each interaction they have…
- To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the…
- If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.
- I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are…
- Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who…
- Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around…
- More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and…
- Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
- In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign…
- Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new…
- Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.
- Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.
- Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of…
- We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle