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This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves.

Clarence Thomas

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On the Senate hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court.

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Thomas, Clarence. Quoted in The New York Times. 12 Oct. 1991. Originally a statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee. 11 Oct. 1991, Washington, DC, USA.

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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address at Oglethorpe University. 22 May 1932, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.

Richard Nixon

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Nixon, Richard. Associated Press Managing Editors Annual Conference. 17 Nov. 1973, Disney's Contemporary Resort, Orlando, FL. Q and A Session.

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You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful-I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything...Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.

Donald Trump

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Trump, Donald. Recorded remarks to Billy Bush on Access Hollywood television program. Sept. 2005, Burbank, CA, USA.

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Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope—some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1964 State of the Union

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Johnson, Lyndon B. "State of the Union Address." Joint congress meeting. 8 Jan. 1964, US Capital Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and the executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

John Adams

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Adams, John. Thoughts on Government, Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1776.

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Adams, John. "Thoughts on Government, Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies, April 1776." John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783, edited by Gordon S. Wood. Library of America, 2011.

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The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

John Marshall

Cohens v. Virginia

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Cohens v. Virginia. United States Reports, vol. 19, 4 Mar. 1821, pp. 264-448. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/264/.

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We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Grutter v. Bollinger

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O'Connor, Sandra Day. United States, Supreme Court. Grutter v. Bollinger. United States Reports, vol. 539, 23 June 2003, pp. 306-395. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/306/.

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You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Rahm Emanuel

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Emanuel, Rahm. Quoted in "In Crisis, Opportunity for Obama." Written by Gerald F. Seib. Wall Street Journal, 21 Nov. 2008.

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We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.

James Monroe

1823 State of the Union

Principle that became known as the "Monroe Doctrine".

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Monroe, James. Message to Congress about The Monroe Doctrine. Seventh annual message to Congress. 2 Dec. 1823, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The media's the opposition party.

Steve Bannon

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Bannon, Steve. "Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut'." Interviewed by Michael M. Grynbaum. The New York Times, 26 Jan. 2017.

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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

Warren G. Harding

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Harding, Warren G. "Readjustment." Home Market Club meeting. 14 May 1920, Boston, MA, USA.

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The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, Robert F. Remarks at the University of Kansas. 18 Mar. 1968, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.

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Now, you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Rumsfeld, Donald. News conference. 22 Jan. 2003.

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By the way, I would have voted for Obama for a third term, if I could. Best president in my lifetime, hands down.

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Get Out. Directed by Jordan Peele, Blumhouse Productions/QC Entertainment/Monkeypaw Productions, 2017.

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The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.

John Nance Garner

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Garner, John Nance. Comment to Lyndon B. Johnson on the vice presidency. c. 1964.

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We're a nation of community, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary, and unique... A brillant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

George H.W. Bush

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Bush, George H. W. Acceptance address at the Republican National Convention. Republican National Convention. 18 Aug. 1988, New Orleans, LA, USA.

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I brought myself down. I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I'd had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Richard Nixon

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Nixon, Richard. "Nixon Interviews." Interviewed by David Frost. ABC, 4 May 1977, pt. 1.

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It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

Louis Brandeis

New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann

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Brandeis, Louis. Dissenting Opinion. New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann. United States Reports, vol. 285, 21 Mar. 1932, pp. 280-311. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/285/262/.

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National Review... Stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

William F. Buckley, Jr

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Buckley, William F., Jr. "Our Mission Statement." National Review, 19 Nov. 1955.

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