"A government is for the benefit of all the people."

-- William Howard Taft

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“The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality is these are minor factors. These are local races. ... The issues tend to be less ideological than for Senate races or races for president. ... It's about potholes and streetlights.”

Source : "Stakes Are High in N.J., Va. Governor Races". www.foxnews.com. October 23, 2005.
“I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!”

Source : "Sanaa Lathan Talks Bad Weaves, ‘Best Man 2’ and that Nasty Kobe Byrant Rumor!". Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. January 27, 2012.
“What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.”

Source : "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.
“The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.”
“no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.193, Macmillan
“A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”
“It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity.”
“I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class.”

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