Lane Kirkland Quotes
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Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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I've been standing, tippy- toe, waiting to be kissed (by the Republican Party), and no one has come forward.
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The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.
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The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.
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The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.
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The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
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If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
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We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.
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The only way to convert the heathen is to travel into the jungle.
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My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.