We must get the American
“We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we’ll do it … not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.” Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
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“Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.” Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
“Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they’re actually being very un-American.” David Duchovny
“The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.” Elizabeth Bowen
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