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“When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.”

“The term '20/20 vision' implies good if not perfect sight. May the advent of 2020 - a new year, a new decade - see a lifting of the fog which has recently blurred the edges of what can be described as 'acceptable political discourse', and in the process refocus voter attention on the clear need to demand from elected representatives, a display of basic decency and decorum in public life - both of which have been seriously lacking in the behaviour of some high profile politicians on both sides of the pond, on an eye-watering number of occasions. That indeed would be a sight for sore eyes.”

“The carnival is in full swing around us. Unspeakable depravities are occurring in the shadows behind the tent. Sinister cabals of dark wizards make blood pacts with the mutants on stage. The paranoid hear voices rich with ominous foreboding. Somewhere, someone is getting raped and it may as well be all of us. We're trying to rationalize our way out of a situation where we've been made to believe a moral stand is all that separates us from destruction. But we're fundamentally immoral people. Our morality can be summed up as such: 'I have to get mine.”

“Former CIA agent and Watergate convict, Howard Hunt suggested several prominent CIA officials involved in the plot to assassinate JFK, including Richard Helms—the top agency’s top man. The other CIA suspects Hunt named in his book were William Harvey and David Morales, a “cold-blooded assassin,” Hunt observed, who like his boss Harvey, was “possibly completely amoral.” While vigorously proclaiming his own innocence, Hunt speculated that Harvey—“a strange character hiding a mass of hidden aggression”—might have played the lead role in organizing the assassination, hiring Mafia sharpshooters “to administer the magic bullet” in Dallas. Hunt even went so far as to raise the possibility that Harvey was acting on orders from Vice President, Lyndon Johnson.”

“The problem with political ideologues such as arch Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg (a.k.a. JackOff Grease-Smug) is that they are totally divorced from reality with heads stuck firmly in the clouds. Add to that the priggish and rarefied demeanour of this particular outlandishly pompous ass and you end up with a complete disconnect with the way things actually work. Pragmatism and consensus articulated by compassionate people who live in the real world and with feet firmly on the ground must win the day with Britain's economic interests foremost in mind. Get on your Penny Farthing Jacob and start peddling fast. You are a tiresome irrelevance better consigned to a museum for musty relics.”

“If the government in a country treats 60 percent of the population well and 40 percent badly, that means there is a dictatorship in that country; if it treats 90 percent well and 10 percent badly, or 5 percent badly, that still means there is a dictatorship in that country. Unless the government in the country treats all of the population well and embraces everyone, that means there is a dictatorship in that country and that government is illegitimate!”

“If you want something that is impossible or shouldn't be done to be done, put a madman in power! When he starts doing the things that are said to be impossible or shouldn't be done, the world's reaction won't be very strong, because everyone knows he's mad, and criticizing a madman's actions is pointless, because madness is already exempt from moral and legal obligations!”

“पापा का देर रात तक रेडियो पर 'हवामहल' सुनना मुझे याद है। रात के आर जे की बातों पर हम सबका हँसना, उन रातों की रौनक बढ़ा देता था। ऐसी ही एक रात को एमरजेंसी के बाद चुनाव परिणाम घोषित हुए थे। निर्णायक परिणाम आ चुका था। इंदिरा गाँधी चुनाव हार गई थी और इस घोषणा के साथ रेडियो ने गाना बजाया, 'सबेरे वाली गाड़ी से चले जाएंगे, कुछ ले के जाएंगे, कुछ दे के जाएंगे, सवेरे वाली गाड़ी...”