"'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?"

-- Linda Ellerbee

#Mean Quotes #Government Quotes #America Quotes

“Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.”

Source : "Gov. John Kasich On Health Policy, Religion And Inclusiveness". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 25, 2015.
“Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?”

Source : "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.
“Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.”
“Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.”
“Women should be in the kitchen, the discotheque and the boutique, but not in football.”
“The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.”
“And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.”
“If you don't feel out of control, you're not driving fast enough.”

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