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FEMA can be turned around. But I don't think it can be turned around within Homeland Security.


Eric Tolbert

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ERIC PARSLOW The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER