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The following quotes are priceless for many reasons. Since the creator of this lens assumes the reader is an intelligent individual, he has decided to suppress his own judgment by not adding any comments. The beauty of each quotation is similar to that of a joke: explain it, and you will kill its internal humor. Just read it, think it, enjoy it and react. In this context, there is a clear distinction between your comments or reactions and the useless explaining just described.

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Paul Krugman

"But they should also be prepared to add to the stimulus [package] now that it's clear that the first round wasn't big enough" -The New York Times (July 10, 2009).

"I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society." -The New York Times (January 29, 2002)

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Nobel-prize winner in Economics (2008).

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Ann Coulter

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." -New York Observer (August 21, 2002)

"I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote." -Hannity & Colmes (August 17, 1997)

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war" -Syndicated column (September 13, 2001)

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American Author and political commentator.

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Sarah Palin

"Well, let's see. There's, of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America..." -CBS News (October 01, 2008)

"Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems - as if we all didn't know that already. But the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all." -The Bellingham Herald (September 03, 2008)

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American politician, first female Governor of Alaska and vice-presidential candidate for the 2008 elections.

 

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Christopher Hitchens

"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint." -Slate (November 18, 2002)

"I have been as fair as possible in quoting Gov. Palin. I have used only sentences from her that make some sort of grammatical sense. It would have been easy enough-and relevant enough-to cite answers that she gave to Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric that appeared to be uttered in no known language." -Slate (October 20, 2008)

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British-American intellectual, author and journalist.

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Barack Obama

"The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind." -Ladies' Home Journal (September 2008)

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line. -The Audacity of Hope (2006)

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. -Speech (June 04, 2009)

I've often said that I don't believe government has the answer to every problem or that it can do all things for all people. We are a nation built on the strength of individual initiative. But there are certain things that we can't do on our own. There are certain things only a government can do" -Press conference (March 14, 2009)

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44th President of the United States of America.

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George W. Bush

"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States." -The Washington Times (June 18, 2009)

"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." -Newsweek (September 14, 2001)

"The United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example." -Statement on United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 23, 2003)

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43rd President of the United States of America.

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