"The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information is made available to our people. In fact, free and candid discussion of vexing problems is the bedrock of democracy and it may be our surest safeguard for peace."

-- Brien McMahon

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter?”

Source : "Guns in cockpit bill passes the Senate / Measure would let pilots volunteer to be deputized" by Matthew L. Wald, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2002.
“I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.”
“As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.”
“Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"”

Source : Thomas Hood (1861). “The daughters of king Daher; and other poems”, p.62
“I looked like a ghost. And I should know. Iâ€™ve seen a few.”
“Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an implicit acceptance, like being invited along to the dinner with all of the good cartoonists, or sitting down at a drafting table with an artist and him showing me how to draw backgrounds and perspectives.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages.”
“100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.”

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