"I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!"

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Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.46, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Pat Oliphant

“I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.”

Source : "Bob Monkhouse" by Dennis Barker, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2003.
“Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.”
“There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going to be about that, but it has to have that journey; I have to learn something, I have to end up somewhere I didn't expect to be, otherwise, I don't think it's painting.”
“All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.”
“Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.”
“Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.”
“The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
“If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.”

Source : "Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2010.

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