"Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest."

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Alice Rivlin

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“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”
“People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.”
“The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.”
“You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.”

Source : FaceBook post by Karen Salmansohn from Oct 06, 2012
“Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed ...”

Source : Dorothy Gilman (2014). “Palm for Mrs. Pollifax”, p.109, Fawcett
“Our tomorrows must be met at the time of their arrival... with the HOPE they are as BEAUTIFUL as today!”
“I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person.”
“The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.”

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