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"My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy." - Major General Smedley Butler, 1932, former US Marine in reply after being asked to organise a fascist coup.

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." - Henry Kissinger, as quoted in The New York Times Magazine (June 1, 1969)

"One day he'd take, the next day he'd give. At the end of the month, I was always ahead of the game, getting more than my salary," - Abu Ali, Saddam Hussein's cook, 28 May 2020.

"We're always appreciative of the side-hustle," - Amy Segal speaking on the interview process at Edelman, a public relations firm that built its business working for oil companies, 25 February 2020.

"Thus the primary contradiction of the backlash: it is a working-class movement that has done incalculable, historic harm to working class people." - Thomas Frank, What's the Matter With Kansas (2004)

"If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't." - Hyman, G Rickover, US Navy admiral, New York Times, 3 November 1986