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Just tax the heck out of people“Warren [will] tell you his preference is… let the market work… and then just tax the heck out of people at the end and just redistribute it. That way you’re not impeding efficiency, and you’re achieving equity on the back end.” - Barack Obama
We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk- rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling conventions. We weren’t indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated. But this strategy alone couldn’t provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so- called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.” - Barack Obama
True Patriotism“You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a [flag] pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.” - Barack Obama
I personally would want to see our tragic history” I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native American or African American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.” - Barack Obama , July 27, 2008
Not since 9/11 have I experienced anything even kind of close to this“It’s one of the greatest experiences of, certainly my lifetime and it’s been wonderful… I haven’t seen this sense of unity since 9/11, really, really, and 9/11 was this tragic experience that brought us all together and now we’re all brought together in the name of hope. Not since 9/11 have I experienced anything even kind of close to this.” - Oprah Winfrey , November 4, 2008
The cooked books and faked threats“As a final crash of self-indulgent non-sense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats… When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when someone asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self- abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.” - Keith Olbermann , May 14, 2008
Most of the political scandals“You know, most of the scandals- most of the political scandals… in recent years, have involved Republicans.” - Wolf Blitzer
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified that I am“Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified that I am to be vice president of the United States of America - let’s get that straight.” - Joe Biden , Posted September 11, 2008.
think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think“Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years.” - Barack Obama , September 1, 2008.
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