Quote by James McGreevey
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The politica

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. – James McGreevey

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No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a mortal sin subject to damnation. – James McGreevey

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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether its Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of womens rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties. – James McGreevey

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Freedom
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You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public. – James McGreevey

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Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. – Dick Durbin

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Short of being prime minister there isnt a better job in British politics than running London. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. – Murray Kempton

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Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, thats whats happening. They either go, or they dont go. Its all politics. Its all demographics. – Warren Beatty

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Often he who does too much does too little. – Italian Proverb

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Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Make lunch, not war. – Author unknown

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Since I had the baby I cant tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didnt need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that. – Lisa Kudrow

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