"Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller."

-- James Surowiecki

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“I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.”
“You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.”
“Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.”

Source : Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”
“Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.”
“I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.”
“If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.”
“I would say to everybody that hydraulic fracking is safe,”

Source : "Ken Salazar, Steven Chu praise fracking as 'safe'". www.washingtonexaminer.com. September 4, 2013.
“I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?”

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