"The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box."

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Source : "When Corporate Speech Jeopardizes Equality We Can’t Just “Shut It Off” — Women Must Pursue Citizens United Reform" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2012.

Christine Pelosi

#Lying Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Minimum Wage Quotes

“I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.”
“I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.”
“A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.”

Source : John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.15, Courier Corporation
“Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.181, Egmont UK
“Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of this live.”
“I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.”
“E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)”

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