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I should have said, ‘She is the woman of my life today.’

French president François Hollande, hedging an earlier proclamation of love for his long-time partner Valérie Trierweiler.

(via nytimes)

# posted January 21, 2014
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There’s a Plan A.
Jason Furman, Chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, on whether there’s a backup plan if enough young people don’t enroll in Obamacare. via Wonkblog
# posted December 23, 2013
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Sometimes some of us are lucky and some of us are not.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, responding to the New York Times’ investigation into child homelessness in the city.

(via Politicker)

# posted December 17, 2013
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President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt shoot a selfie…at Nelson Mandela’s memorial. (via Selfies at Funerals)

President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt shoot a selfie…at Nelson Mandela’s memorial. (via Selfies at Funerals)

# posted December 10, 2013
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That’s called bullshit with a serving of horseshit on the side.
Former IRS official, on details in a tax return from Karl Rove’s dark money group, Crossroads GPS. Read more here.
# posted November 25, 2013
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Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. but … am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors.
Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Watch here.
# posted November 05, 2013
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It’s effectively the same standard as stop and frisk.

NSA General Counsel Rajesh De, on the standard they use when deciding whether to search phone call data.

(via The Hill) 

# posted November 05, 2013
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I can assure people, hopefully it doesn’t happen again.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, apologizing for being drunk in public.

(via Toronto Star)

# posted November 04, 2013
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Obamacare is really the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. It is slavery, in a way.
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson describing Obamacare during the 2013 Value Voters Summit, as tweeted by The Atlantic’s Molly Ball.
# posted October 11, 2013
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The extreme right has 90 seats in the House. Occupy Wall Street has no seats.
Joe Echevarria, chief executive of Deloitte, on the splintering of the Republican Party. via Business Groups See Loss of Sway Over House GOP (NYT)
# posted October 10, 2013
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I have friends that I know, or very much suspect, are homosexual.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

(see the rest of his interview with New York Magazine here.)

# posted October 07, 2013
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You can’t go to a movie—or watch a television show for that matter—without hearing the constant use of the F-word—including, you know, ladies using it.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on how times have changed.

(via New York Magazine)

# posted October 07, 2013
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We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., on the GOP’s shutdown strategy. via WashingtonExaminer

(Source: washingtonexaminer.com)

# posted October 03, 2013
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