"I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down."

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Source : Speech in Ilford (13 March 1982), from Simon Heffer, "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell", p. 853, 1999.

Enoch Powell

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“As Albert Camus wrote, the doctorâ€™s role is as a witness â€“ to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction... The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.”
“Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.”
“Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. We [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.”

Source : "Q&A: 'The Conservative Heart'" by Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.
“Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.”

Source : Source: www.vulture.com
“When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.”
“Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .”

Source : David Bornstein (2007). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition”, p.156, Oxford University Press
“An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.”
“Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.”

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