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Martha Raye

"I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today."

Source : "Take It from the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Raye" by Jane Maddern Pittrone, (p. 220), April 8, 1999.

Martha Raye

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“There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the "rich" and on the "fat cats." But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business-and soon to own 50%-the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds.”
“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.”

Source : "Invest in Life Experiences" by Sean Kim, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.
“Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.”
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.”
“Inside of all of us we have these patterns where we eventually become at least ethnocentric. We care about our group, our mom, our dad, our family, our religion. And some people, eventually, evolve beyond that until they're more human-centric or even spirit-centric where they care about everything.”
“A library is a palace of dreams.”
“Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the complex relationship between photographic representation and race, and adds new insight into the ways in which this one black community has figured in both the critical and public imaginations. Harlem Crossroads is a tour de force.”
“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.”

Source : Quoted in Washington Post, 12 Nov. 1967

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