"Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained."

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David Frum

#Country Quotes #Desperate Quotes #Economic Quotes

“Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.”
“So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?”

Source : "In Her Own Disputed Words; Transcript of Interview That Spawned Souljah's Story". Interview with David Mills, The Washington Post, June 16, 1992.
“The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.”
“When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!”

Source : "Memories of mischief". Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.
“Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.”
“I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?”

Source : Carson McCullers (1964). “The ballad of the sad café”
“Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you”
“Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.”

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