"Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they don't have one." So if you're of that ilk, yes, you can have your private paradise, but if you're comfortable with government, then go with government."

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Source : "Frontline", www.pbs.org. November 10, 2007.

Uwe Reinhardt

#Country Quotes #Hate Quotes #Men Quotes

“All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.”
“Writers are engineers of human souls.”
“Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.”
“In the Green Zone in Iraq you have your radio, you have your food, you have your own electricity, your own toilets. Everything is a sealed American reality overlaid on top of an infrastructure that is crumbling.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.”
“I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of FÃ¡fnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.”
“A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.”
“I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.”

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