"As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War II, we spent billions of dollars to rebuild Europe or at least part of Europe after the devastation of World War II. We did it out of charity, but we also did it to keep the Russians from getting deeply into Europe."

-- Michael Beschloss

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“Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their dÃ©cor, their clothes, everything â€“ taking it for granted that thatâ€™s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isnâ€™t even all the spectacular then youâ€™re dangerous. Youâ€™re breaking all the rules. Youâ€™re undermining the sacred economy. Youâ€™re challenging every assumption that society is built on.”
“Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.”
“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.”
“Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.”
“I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am."”
“I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help them get on the road again. It would be like being a magician. Just open up the hood and cast your magic spell.”
“We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.”
“What is very exciting with children is they like to play, and they don't care so much about the meanings [of things], and they are just excited to have weird scenes to do or weird things to do, like playing deaf, or playing sick, or swimming in the water.”

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