"I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything."

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Source : "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien (Chapter Eight "A New Constitution", p. 189), 1985.

Jean Chretien

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“I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves.”

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“Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.”

Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival in Los Angeles, California, www.keyesarchives.com. April 21, 2002.
“On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
“To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.”
“Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.”
“If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.”
“Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that 'all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights' This declaration of Independence was received and ratified by all the States in the Union & has never been disannuled. May we not from hence conclude, that the doctrine of Liberty and Equality is an article in the political creed of the United States.”
“I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.”

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