"The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues."

-- Matthew Yglesias

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“New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.”
“I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.”
“John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her”
“The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.”
“Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.”
“Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.”
“There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.”
“An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.”

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