"Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you have to torture people in order to protect national security is a false argument, and I reject it."

-- John McCain

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“The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.”
“Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that hope whereby we grasp things of the future as though they were present. Without the power of desire there is no longing, and so no love, which is the issue of longing; for the property of desire is to love something. And without the incensive power, intensifying the desire for union with what is loved, there can be no peace, for peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.”
“people with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living.”
“I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.”

Source : "Prison Bound". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2000.
“Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.”

Source : "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.
“In fact, among the 1000 titles which I have recorded in the past 35 years, there are less than 10% of classical titles.”
“When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”
“The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.”

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