Eric Alterman Quotes
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.
Eric Alterman
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
Nan Hayworth
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
Rachel Nichols
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
Nate Silver
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
Damian Marley
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...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.
Randall Jarrell
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You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
Carl Jung
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This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.
Matt Taibbi
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I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.
Jerry Falwell
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I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
Aviva
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I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.
Tyler Cowen
