"The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community."

-- Gavin Newsom

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“I see myself as an arbiter of taste.”
“After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.”
“Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.”

Source : "Goosen's win 'sinking in now'". Interview with Tom Clark, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 23, 2004.
“I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.”
“Frankly, health care and politics are "inextricably intertwined."”

Source : "WellPoint CEO: Wasted Opportunity for Real Reform". Interview with Joseph Rago, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2010.
“I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.”
“We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.”
“I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.”

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