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There was no whimsical ‘sip of wine at Thanksgiving’ for us kids while we were still teenagers. This was the Clinton era, and my parents were already worried about the moral deterioration of the country.

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I do know a few things, actually. I know you have rather backwards laws about relations with non-magic people. That you’re not mean to befriend them, that you can’t marry them, which seems mildly absurd to me.

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Not long ago Congress voted, with much patriotic rhetoric, for the imposition of severe penalties upon anyone presuming to burn the flag of the United States. Yet the very Congressmen who passed this law are responsible, by acts of commission or omission, for burning, polluting, and plundering the territory that the flag is supposed to represent. Therein, they exemplified the peculiar andperhaps fatal fallacy of civilization: the confusion of symbol with reality.

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The moment you vote, you are a citizen. But moment you make your vote public, you are a politician.

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It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.

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The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia’s constitution was “absolutism moderated by assassination.

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Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay

Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)

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Stephen Colbert

I like talking about people who don’t have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don’t have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.

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Bridget Kendall

Senior Republicans certainly expected the president to come clean over Miss Lewinsky.

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James Reston Jr.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

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There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.

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People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, ‘How do you think I got the job?

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