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[Reason for Democrats' success in 2012 election] Republicans/Conservatives gave voters credit for being smart while Democrats assumed they’re not.

Joe "Pags" Pagliarulo

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During the Clinton administration, Republican economists pushed through a change in the way the CPI is measured in order to save money by depriving Social Security retirees of their cost-of-living adjustment.

Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, Reagan administration

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In order to avenge the blood of 3,000 people [in the 9/11 attack], 1 million people [Afghans & Iraqis] shouldn't give their lives.

Mahmoud Amadinejad, President of Iran

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In return [for pricing oil in U.S. dollars], the U.S. promised to protect the various oil-rich kingdoms in the Persian Gulf against threat of invasion or domestic coup.

Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)

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[The insurance industry] is thankful for the 50 million new private insurance policies that Obamacare, written not by Obama but by the private insurance companies, provides at public expense.

Paul Craig Roberts

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We do not consider whether the Act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the Nation’s elected leaders.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (pdf) in his Jun 28, 2012 opinion on Obamacare

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Members of this Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (pdf) in his Jun 28, 2012 opinion on Obamacare

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No nation can absorb unlimited numbers of people from another culture without jeopardizing its own culture.

Thomas Sowell

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They go around telling everybody how sorry these politicians are, and they voted for all of them....The American people have got to take some ownership, too.

Former President Bill Clinton (D)

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

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It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

Murray Rothbard

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For most American Jews, the core of their Jewish identity isn’t solidarity with Israel; it’s rejection of Christianity.

Michael Medved, Orthodox Jew

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You can't beat the U.S. media for propaganda.

Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks

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This President [Obama] who would be Emperor, now is.

Jonathan W. Emord

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