"No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of ***** ever read a story to a sleepy child."

-- Shirley Williams

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“Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.”
“Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with their melodies, Till noon burns with its blistering breath Around, and day lies still as death.”
“The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.”

Source : "My Open Letter on Health Insurance Reform" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2009.
“I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.”
“There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight.”
“Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.”
“Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.”
“One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.”

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