"Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters."

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Source : Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

Grover Cleveland

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“In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47.”
“I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.”

Source : "Q&A - Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Lt. Charles Dawson)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.
“I keep trying to tell people. I said, at 40, 45, you're at that crossroads. You really are there. And it's not like you can have gain without pain, but this is it. The days are - like when I wrote this whole thing about, in the beginning of my first magazine. I said, "If you live to be 75 years old, that's 3,900 weekends. That's it."”
“If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.”
“With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.”
“In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.”

Source : "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.
“I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.”
“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”

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