"The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a long time, and yes, there obviously are people who disagree with policy who talk to me, but it's less axes to grind than people who are really motivated. One of the terrible things about this Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news."

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Source : Source: www.progressive.org

Seymour Hersh

#Axes Quotes #Funny Things Quotes #Long Quotes

“I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.”
“Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.”

Source : "'About a Boy's' David Walton: 'It's amazing the house doesn't burst into flames'". Interview with Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. March 4, 2014.
“In the Eighties, the landscape was changing. No one knew if they had a future. It's not like now. There was no satellite. Kids were still out on the streets playing all the time. For me, it was the last great hurrah! People don't take those chances anymore. Everyone's far too reserved. Men look like women, women look like men.”
“Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.”

Source : "Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book edited by Carol Dingle, p. 21, 2000.
“Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.”
“Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.”
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.â€ â€””
“A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?”

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