"Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal."

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Source : "Is There Truth In Gingrich's Remarks On The Poor?". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

Newt Gingrich

#Monday Quotes #Children Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.”
“invaders always destroy libraries.”
“I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.”
“What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.”
“I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.”
“I love all of our subpodcasts.”
“As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.”

Source : "The Perfect Law of Freedom". 2004.
“He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.”

Source : Charlie Higson (2015). “The Enemy Series”, p.257, Penguin UK

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