Quote by Andrew Greeley
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately l

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear? – Andrew Greeley

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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. – Andrew Greeley

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It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They werent going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. – Andrew Greeley

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I have terrible handwriting. I now say its a learning disability… but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. – Andrew Greeley

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Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. – Charles Evans Hughes

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If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student. – Paul Graham

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So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants. – Robert Mueller

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We cant gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, weve already done that – with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253. – Peter King

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