"President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate."

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Source : "The tyranny of the minority" by Peter Fenn, www.politico.com. March 19, 2009.

Peter Fenn

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“I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.”
“The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.”
“I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.”

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“'Elections have consequences,' President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later, the president's party has lost 70 House seats and 14 Senate seats. The job of Republicans now is to govern with the confidence that elections do have consequences, promptly passing the conservative reform the voters have demanded.”
“You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.”
“If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.”
“Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song.”
“The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.”

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