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“We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.”

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Lawton Chiles

Former American Senator, born on April 3, 1930, and passed away on December 12, 1998. more

“Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.”

“We're in a political depression - a great political depression”

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Author:Chuck Todd

“Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.”

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Author:Alan K. Simpson

“It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.”

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Author:Alan K. Simpson

“I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.”

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Author:Lorne Michaels

“Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.”

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Author:Cecily McMillan

“I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. It's just a part of being a girl in 2013.”

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Author:Lorde

“There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.”

“The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.”

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Author:Jimmy Haslam

“Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.”

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Author:George Packer

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