"An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed."

-- Taylor Caldwell

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“I had the opportunity to play every day in the minors, and everybody knew me in the minors. In the big leagues, it was a little different. It was up and down and up and down, and I didn't get a chance to show people that I can play every day and I can be a superstar. Now, I can show everybody what they are getting from me.”
“What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.”
“I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.”
“Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.”
“The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”
“Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.”
“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.”
“Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.”

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