"And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on Labor Day in 1960. So Detroit was really central to Democratic politics United States. Every Democratic candidate would start their fall campaigns in Cadillac Square."

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Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

David Maraniss

#Country Quotes #Fall Quotes #Squares Quotes

“Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.”
“I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can't help but feel insecure.”
“If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.”
“Climate change is the mother of all hysterias of the Left”
“The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.”
“The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.”
“I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.”
“I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.”

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