"In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that."

-- T.R. Reid

#Democracy Quotes #Politician Quotes #Free Speech Quotes

“The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”

Source : Fragment in Plutarch De facie in or be lunae, 929b.
“I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.”
“If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.”
“G-strings are uncomfortable. Girls want real knickers now.”
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.”
“We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.”
“To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.”
“We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision”

Source : Sarah Weddington (2013). “A Question of Choice: Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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