"Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction."

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Source : John Avlon (2014). “Wingnuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama”, p.30, Beast Books

John Avlon

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“...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.”
“If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.”
“No one is perfect in this world. Forgive people for not knowing better and learn to move on.”
“The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.”
“I like them old and rich.”
“After you are diagnosed with a condition that is reasonably likely to lead to intolerable suffering and eventually cause loss of competence. An individual in this situation is going to be followed closely, and if they've made this advance request, and had it approved, then obviously it's up to the medical team advising them to follow the legislation.”

Source : "Grappling with the hardest questions on assisted dying". Interview with John Geddes, www.macleans.ca. January 25, 2016.
“More likely, there were probably some real divisions within the Iranian government - some groups wanted to ally with al Qaeda against us, others didn't want to have anything to do with that. So I think that debate resulted in no decision being made for awhile. The problem was they left the al-Qaeda folks in Iran in the hands of their intelligence services and Revolutionary Guard, who didn't really keep an eye on them - and may not have kept an eye on them on purpose.”

Source : "The Persian Puzzle: An Interview With Kenneth Pollack". Interview With Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. January 24, 2005.
“Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.”

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