"Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law."

-- Michael Barone

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“To fight, we must have oil for our machine.”
“I have always tried to live my life as a just and humble person. When the sanctions were announced, Europe should have questioned the people who have been sanctioned as well as to find the truth. That did not happen. How can Europe act fairly? Do they base their decisions on hearsay?”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.”
“If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.”

Source : "Nell Freudenberger: ‘The Newlyweds’ Author On Her New Book And The Woman Who Inspired It". Interview with Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.
“You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. August 13, 2010.
“How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.”
“The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.”

Source : Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?”, Verso Books
“Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.”

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