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America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad, because it's going to put up a fight. It's going to say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil; who's standing center stage, advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim that this land is the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest."
Now show me that. Defend that. Celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.-- President Andrew Shepard (The American President)
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than illumination.-- Andrew Lang
Don't ask "why" unless you're not disappointed with answers like "I don't know."-- Andrew Walenstein
I told [my doctor] that I thought having an orgasm a day instead of hormone replacement therapy was more fun.-- Cybill Shepard
"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."-- Buck Henry
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.-- Oscar Wilde
Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.-- Andrew Lias
Adventure: The land between entertainment and panic.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.-- Adlai Stevenson
"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we'."-- Mark Twain
We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs.-- Mike Andrews (a.s.r.)
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.-- Andre Gide
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."-- Theodore Roosevelt
It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not.-- Andre Gide
"Ah," said the president [Reagan] with great lucidity, "It's true we shipped weapons to Iran, but they were defensive weapons."
If the man had a brain, he'd play with it.-- Molly Ivins
"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."-- Harry S. Truman
"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git'...."-- Alexi Sayle
The public seems incapable of distinguishing between your garden variety idiot and your genuine lunatic. It is the same confusion the public has had over the last five Presidents.-- Mark Leeper
Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he would spend two years campaigning and organizing for it should not be trusted with the office.
Then who's been going through my garbage?
-- Andrew Solovay
Usually we call it "reading your postings"; your terminology is so much more succinct, though.-- Roger Klorese
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.-- Anais Nin
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."-- Mario Andretti
Regrettable Necessity, n:
An avoidable atrocity. The term is often employed by presidents and prime ministers when announcing bombings of civilian targets and invasions of small countries.-- Chaz Bufe (The Devil's Dictionaries)
I love stress because it's a whole lot better than depression.-- Drew Olbrich
"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."-- Clive Barker
It's better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.-- Abraham Lincoln
"And I'm not all that decent and honorable. I'm merely well-bred, which I hope is a tolerable substitute."-- Anne Rice (Ramses the Damned)
"...everyone else here is likely as stressed as you are, though much more competent and cynical."
-- Chris Johnson (a.s.r)
Rule of Feline Frustration: When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom.