"I don't know if it's possible for anyone to really have that level of a voice anymore because our media is so diluted and parsed out. You know people kind of go for the news and information that they want as opposed to picking up a paper and seeing what catches their eye. It's a very stark difference and there is a few stories that end up going wide and everybody hears about them, but they're usually salacious celebrity stuff that is not about substance or it's the latest disaster and it's kind of covered in a way that is just trying to get eyeballs on the screen."

-- John Buffalo Mailer

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“Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.”
“Georgie Porgie, he might buy the whole league, but he doesn't have enough money to buy fear to put in my heart.”

Source : Pedro Martinez, Michael Silverman (2015). “Pedro”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.”
“When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which its created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.”

Source : "HEDGE-FUND GOD KEN GRIFFIN: Our Government Is Ruining Our Country--That's Why I'm Giving Millions To Mitt Romney And The Koch Brothers" by Melissa Harris, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2012.
“At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.”

Source : "On @CNNSOTU today: Gov. Bev Perdue, @GovernorOMalley, and @villaraigosa discuss #DNC2012". Interview with Candy Crowley, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 2, 2012.
“Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.”
“- I hate to break this to you, Cameron, but you are only human. - Shh... I've been trying to keep that under wraps for years.”
“In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.”

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