"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."
-Charles Barkley
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"Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.“
-Charles Barkley
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"You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black."
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"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it."
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"One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check."
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"My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'."
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"This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump."
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"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
-Tom Robbins
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
-Joseph de Maistre
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"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
-Thomas Sowell
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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