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We are dealing in lethal firearms. I’m not going to let a Nazi shoot in here, or a Klu Klux Klan member in here, either.

Jan 28, 2015

Jan Morgan, FoxNews.Com
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Albums – like books and black lives - they still matter.

Feb 08, 2015

Prince, 57th Annual Grammy Awards
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[We remember] Martin Luther King as an idea, Selma as an idea…what can happen with strategy, with discipline, and with love.

Jan 18, 2015

Oprah Winfrey, Speaking to marchers
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Americans can directly relate to attacks on freedom of speech. They can directly relate to terrorism. And the impact in France is being compared to the impact of 9/11 in the United States. Boko Haram, by contrast, is viewed as a kind of civil war ... and it's all happening a very long way away.

Jan 13, 2015

John Campbell, CNN
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If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments -- but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

Jan 20, 2015

Barack Obama, 2015 State of the Union Address
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They say that nothing is going to be accomplished here; the division is wider than ever, so gridlock will be even greater. No, this won’t be done in a tidy way. The battle of ideas never ends, and, frankly, never should.

Jan 06, 2015

John Boehner, Addressing the House chamber after being reelected Speaker
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The movie Selma is a story about the American Civil Rights movement that totally worked and now everything is fine.

Jan 12, 2015

Tina Fey, Presenting at the 2015 Golden Globe awards
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I behaved badly, and I will have to live with that, but my own inexcusable arrogance is not a flaw in the Affordable Care Act.

Dec 09, 2014

Jonathan Gruber, Testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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On this day long ago, a child was born who - by age 30 - would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton - born Dec 25, 1642.

Dec 25, 2014

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Twitter
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Anyone who's standing with us, we want you to not use Eric Garner's name for violence, because we are not about that. I'm standing here in sorrow about losing those two police officers.

Dec 21, 2014

Gwen Carr, Speaking to reporters
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