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Historical Figures Quotes |
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the
Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in
covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American
public.
Frank Church
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The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a
free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists
and media organizations.
Frank Church
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and
won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance
to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the
same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state
of things.
Winston Churchill
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except
all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is
in the room.
Winston Churchill
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of
statecraft.
Winston Churchill
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation
with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
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The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may
deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Winston Churchill
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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those
who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've
tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
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A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence,
the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover Cleveland
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the
fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland
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He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect
the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Grover Cleveland
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In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently
the people's office.
Grover Cleveland
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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Grover Cleveland
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The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they
sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're
getting the pipelines.'
George Clooney
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There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.
George Clooney
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We moved away from what we were going after which was the al-Qaeda
and there's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq, which we know, we spent a lot
of time trying to prove it and it didn't happen. And we're going to go into a war
and we're going to kill a lot of innocent people.
George Clooney
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to
happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only
get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Will Rogers
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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats.
If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
Will Rogers
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