"I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact."

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Nat Hentoff

#Firsts Quotes #United States Quotes #First Amendment Quotes

“I love you. I honestly love you.”
“How much time have you invested in thinking about strategy? How many options have you considered before the plan was written? How have you ensured that the thinking behind the plan is challenged? How much time do you spend exploring trends, possibilities and cool stuff? How much time is spent playing with ideas, hopes and dreams?”
“Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.”
“The phrase â€˜popular scienceâ€™ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.”
“I'm an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I'm quite sensitive, but I'm hyperactive too.”
“The fact that previous generations have handed down to us a substantial public heritage by way of roads, port, etc. almost completely free of debt, seems to me to impose some limitation on the validity of the theory that by borrowing we should, or could, pass on the burden of development to the next generation.”

Source : "Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council", (p. 131), March 30, 1962.
“I want to be mayor, but I donâ€™t need to be mayor. Iâ€™m not a career politician.”
“You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.”

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