Stonewalling, wiretapping, cover-up, Lord's sake, if there isn't one of us here at this table that hasn't dabbled in that mystery.
Alan K. Simpson
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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.
He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.
Here we can brag and bluster and blather and almost like a comic book character you could invent, Captain Bombast, pull the cape around the shoulders and shout the magic words, "Get him." And rise above it all in a blast of hot air.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
Stonewalling, wiretapping, cover-up, Lord's sake, if there isn't one of us here at this table that hasn't dabbled in that mystery.
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Welcome to the pit and the great hunters who have been out to tack the pelt of Bill Rehnquist on the wall of the den.
You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.
You'd like to stick it in his gazoo.
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