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“If you’re Irish, you love language, and if you do, you’re going to fall on the occasional expletive; it’s the percussive side of language. For me, it is preposterous to have good, conservative people whom I like and respect taking on an expletive while the right to pack heavy ammo goes by. It says something eloquent, if not pretty, about where we are.”
Bono (who inadvertently used an expletive to express his joy on winning a Golden Globe), on how Janet Jackson’s breast led to hysterical outbreaks of Puritanism in the U.S.
– The New York Times
“After the Bay of Pigs, President Kennedy spoke to newspaper publishers and said: ‘This administration intends to be candid about its errors. For as a wise man once said that an error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive.’”
Maureen Dowd, writing about President Bush refusing to admit his administration made any mistakes during 9/11.
– The New York Times
“I have a long and proud record of combating anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, and this work continues. Currently, I serve on the advisory council of the Center for the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights of Claremont McKenna College, and I am actively engaged with business groups in several European countries to encourage them to combat racism and xenophobia. There are too many inaccuracies, innuendos and misunderstandings for me to refute them one by one in a letter.”
Mary Robinson, responding to accusations by Emory College student Lyle Rubin in the Emory Wheel that Robinson is anti-Semitic.
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