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Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.
Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.
As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.
No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.
The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.
The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.
Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves
People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.
They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual.
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.
When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.
We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.
In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.
Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa.
Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.
Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.
War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.
War and sex are what I call the two abysmal - by that I mean deep - parts of the human condition.
Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.
People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.
Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.
When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.
Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
Transformational leaders are important because they make choices that most other leaders would not.
Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?
A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.