"Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability."

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Source : "Senator calls for Holder's resignation amid challenges over leak probe, Fast and Furious". www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2012.

John Cornyn

#Accountability Quotes #Political Quotes #Independence Quotes

“I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are species and whole lineages that go extinct - but basically novels and plays, and so on, will continue to exist. Jokes, as the lowest-cost form of narrative, will certainly continue to exist. They're a bit like microbes in the biological world. They're low-cost and they're everywhere. They're the most successful form of life, even though they're not the ones we think about most.”
“Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.”
“Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.”
“All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.”
“I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.”
“Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.”

Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.176, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
“The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.”

Source : "The $4.7 trillion pyramid: Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street". Harper's Magazine, April 2005.
“America can't work for only some people and become a dream for all people. It has to work for everyone. And even though everyone might not end up at the same place, if everyone starts with the same beginning, then that's the dream fulfilled. We all don't have the same abilities, but we should have the same opportunities.”

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