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Warren Buffett: “There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.”

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Vaclav Havel: “Genuine politics -- every politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.”

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Maureen Dowd: “The only thing we really have to fear is fearmongering itself.”

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Jim Hightower: “America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.”

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Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

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Rene Dubos: “Think globally, act locally.”

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William Blum: “The 'trickle-down' theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.”

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Aldous Huxley: “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

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Arnold Toynbee: “The best safeguard against fascism is to establish social justice to the maximum extent possible.”

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Louis D. Brandeis: “The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”

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Mark Twain: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow.”

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Janeane Garofolo: “We can no longer tolerate anti-intellectualism. We can no longer tolerate liberal-bashing and we can no longer tolerate the politics of the dumb and the mean.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. ”

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Carl Sagan: “Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”

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Laozi (Lao Tzu): “The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.”

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Wilma Mankiller: “America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.”

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Christopher Lasch: “The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right -- it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.”

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A. Philip Randolph: “Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. ”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.”

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Frederick Douglass: “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

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H. L. Mencken: “I believe in only one thing: liberty, but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”

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William Ellery Channing: “The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”

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Thomas Alva Edison: “I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

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Robert Heinlein: “It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so...”

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Howard Dean: “You have to do something political every single day. Politics at its core is really about organizing people to do something for a cause that is bigger than themselves. April 13, 2011, at Yale University”

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Howard Dean: “I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.”

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Ann Richards: “I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.”

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Lyndon B. Johnson: “I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.”

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Deborah Tannen: “It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.”

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