"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

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“It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.”
“The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.”
“It has become clear that America 's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long - relative to what we spend on the military, and more important, relative to the responsibilities and challenges our nation has around the world.”

Source : Speech to U.S. Global Leadership Campaign (Washington, D.C.), July 15, 2008.
“An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.”
“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
“Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.”
“I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.”

Source : "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview With Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.
“You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.”

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