Riordan Roett famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Overall state control with foreign participation is as good as you are going to get in South America at this moment.
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The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.
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The election process is a total fraud. If voters believe the process is secret, they will vote. If not, they will not.
-- Riordan Roett
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We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
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Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.
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In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
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It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!
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In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
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The state was made for man, not man for state.
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In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
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