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You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

— Helen Thomas

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All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal till the day I die.

We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

This is the worst president ever. He is the worst president in all of American history.

I mean, they (Obama admistration) have a guy like Dennis Ross at the White House now, who's always been a part of the Israel lobby. They put him in charge of the whole Muslim world.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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