A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.


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Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit...
KEITH ELLISON
If you do panto, everyone says you are washed up - but I love all the booing and hissing.
JENNIFER ELLISON
Girls Aloud,
JENNIFER ELLISON
I recently went mad and spent - 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stu...
JENNIFER ELLISON
If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.
JENNIFER ELLISON
My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!
JENNIFER ELLISON
I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.
JENNIFER ELLISON
These vessels will now be better equipped to deal with border incursions and other threats at sea,
CHRIS ELLISON
And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinio...
HARLAN ELLISON
We've had unfortunately a fire overnight, we believe it was deliberately lit. The welfare building, ...
CHRIS ELLISON
You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.
KEITH ELLISON
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of co...
HARLAN ELLISON
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize id...
RALPH ELLISON
Then you can really do genetic engineering, ... I mean where you can actually design an organism or ...
MICHAEL ELLISON
Training hard was not just going to the track at 3:30 and running hard. It was going to bed at the r...
A.J. ELLISON
Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by...
HARLAN ELLISON
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look lik...
HARLAN ELLISON
He would have been aware that if caught so soon, he would be going to prison for much longer than la...
MARK ELLISON
But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symb...
RALPH ELLISON
A mistake people make when having portraits created is doing it themselves or having a friend click ...
STEVE ELLISON
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a da...
HARLAN ELLISON
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, ...
RALPH ELLISON
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
RALPH ELLISON
Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes condi...
KATHERINE ELLISON
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid
HARLAN ELLISON
In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid i...
HARLAN ELLISON
The first day of practice I couldn't run four miles on my own. I ran two miles and then I had to wal...
A.J. ELLISON
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
RALPH ELLISON
People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Rob...
KEITH ELLISON
I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movem...
KEITH ELLISON
Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.
KEITH ELLISON
The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me a...
JENNIFER ELLISON