History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
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Here we are the way politics ought to be in America the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
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Underneath the beautiful exterior there was an element of ruthlessness and toughness that I had trouble either accepting or forgetting.
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If the tobacco officials had really changed, ... they would not have waited until Minnesota secured a court order to mandate the documents' release, and if tobacco officials had really changed, they would not perpetuate their cover-up by continuing to block our efforts to uncover 39,000 documents containing their deepest, darkest secrets.
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