"The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate."

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Source : "Ups and Downs" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2005.

Hendrik Hertzberg

#Filibuster Quotes #Affront Quotes #Democratic Quotes

“So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.”
“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”

Source : "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs, 2004.
“I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.”
“I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.”
“I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.”
“Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.”
“Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.”
“Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.”

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