"Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected."

-- James MacGregor Burns

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“What I remember most from reporting both the stories are the women. Going into the first piece, I didn't have a super fixed idea about abortion. I'd helped a high school friend get to a doctor once. I always assumed that what a woman did was up to her. But I could also see the pro-life point of view that human life should be sacred in whatever gestational form.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”
“Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.”
“If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.”
“We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.”
“I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.”
“And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.”

Source : Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.
“It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.”

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