"We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come."

-- Earl Blumenauer

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“And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.”
“The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all.”
“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?”
“The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.”
“It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.”
“It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.”
“How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art.”
“I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize.”

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