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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

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Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.

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You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

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A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

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I am mindful that we're all sinners.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

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At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

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. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers. And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum. That's the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.

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The woman who knew that I had dyslexia - I never interviewed her.

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That's a chapter - the last chapter - of the 20th ... 20th ... the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.

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It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

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Our nation must come together to unite.

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There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

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