I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.


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I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a clien...
JIM GARRISON
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I coul...
JIM GARRISON
The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employ...
JIM GARRISON
This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute s...
JIM GARRISON
I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
JIM GARRISON
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators tr...
JIM GARRISON
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of indivi...
JIM GARRISON
It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
JIM GARRISON
Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my fait...
JIM GARRISON
It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaig...
JIM GARRISON
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assass...
JIM GARRISON
I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
JIM GARRISON
I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of nationa...
JIM GARRISON
I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
JIM MCGOVERN
I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ...
JIM MCGOVERN
In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr...
JIM MCGOVERN
A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ...
JIM MCGOVERN
Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch...
JIM MCGOVERN
I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
JIM CARREY
A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
JIM BROWN
My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l...
JIM GAFFIGAN
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, &#...
JIM CARREY
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their...
JIM MORRISON
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
JIM ROHN
I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami...
JIM DRAIN
Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of p...
JIM RAMSTAD
I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early ...
JIM HIMES
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, ...
JIM ROHN
Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all t...
JIM CRACE
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it...
JIM MORRISON
Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the princip...
JIM GERLACH