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“That business of four years being the metric for anything? We have a political culture that everyone plants annuals, they plant pretty flowers that come up the next spring. What we need is a political culture where somebody plants a fuckin’ olive tree, which doesn’t even give you an olive for seven years. That’s how you fix an economy…When that olive tree becomes an orchard.”

—David Simon, creator of The Wire, on Real Time with Bill Maher

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”

—Joyce Carol Oates

“All these men and women are looking for is a chance, just a chance to acquire the skills to be able to provide for their families so they can once again hold their heads high and lead independent lives with dignity. That’s all they are looking for.”

—Joe Biden, 2012 Democratic National Convention