The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. -Robert F. Kennedy

 

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.


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This is not about character assassination, ... This is about questioning the ideology of a person who has continuously throughout her career made, really, a life's work of eroding and destroying the mission of the department she is now being named to lead.

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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

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Justice delayed is democracy denied.

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I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.

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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

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