"Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed."

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Source : "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.

Jack Kemp

#Fall Quotes #Gentleman Quotes #Communism Quotes

“Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!”
“Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!....”
“Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.”
“Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.”
“Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.”
“I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.”
“The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected.”

Source : "Jo Dee Messina: On Turning Life into Song". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.”

Source : John Grierson, Ian Lockerbie, John Grierson Archive (1990). “Eyes of democracy”, Grierson Archive

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