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" As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office. " - Molly Ivins

" Do we hate our women? I don’t think so. In fact, Pakistan has more women representation in government than the U.S., and we have twice elected a female head of state. " - Momina Mustehsan

" I’m, you know, having begun my public service in state government. I very much respect the authority of states to make the decisions to provide for its citizen – the safety and welfare of its citizens. " - Alberto Gonzales

" Don’t call me ‘sir; ‘King Jew’ will do fine. " - Don Rickles

" When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately. " - Gordon Ramsay

" Beethoven’s reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip. " - Glenn Gould

" Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed. " - Fidel Castro

" Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. " - Walter Benjamin

" Politicians are so… detested; they don’t actually walk amongst people now. " - Irvine Welsh

" First off, we’ve had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn’t sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot. " - Christopher Shays