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Cuba seems to have the same effect on U.S. administrations as the full moon once had on werewolves. — Wayne Smith, former director of the US Interest Section in Cuba

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. — Aldous Huxley

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power. — Stephen Covey

I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. — Harriet Tubman

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy. — David Korten

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. — Muhammad Ali

No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability, or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. — U.N. Convention Against Torture

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. — President Dwight Eisenhower

In his 2 May 2011 televised statement on the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama made a chilling assertion of divine right and national exemption from the rule of law: “Tonight we are once again reminded that Americans can do whatever we set our minds to … we can do these things not because of our wealth and power, but because of who we are, one nation under God indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” — Ken Sehested

''An infectious greed seemed to grip much of our business community,'' the Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, told the Senate Banking Committee yesterday (16 July 2002). The way he sees it, the incentives created by poorly designed stock options ''overcame the good judgment of too many corporate managers." ''It is not,'' he added, ''that humans have become any more greedy than in generations past. It is that the avenues to express greed had grown so enormously.'' Stock options meant that executives could get rich if they faked profits, and fake them they did. — Floyd Norris