"Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy."

-- Edward Abbey

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Broken Quotes

“It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.”
“Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?”

Source : "Dem debaters target Bush", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.
“Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and Iâ€™m just the one to teach them.”
“...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.”
“The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.”
“Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.”
“The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.”
“Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.”

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