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I'm still trying to get my head around how spending $3 billion more constitutes cuts.


Assemblyman Richard Merkt

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RICHARD MARX Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL ...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 20...
RICHARD ENGEL When the Furies were released in the Middle East, an evil emerged beyond my worst imaginings.
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RICHARD ENGEL the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ...
RICHARD ENGEL This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL Ironically enough, the United States had almost nothing to do with the age-old conflict between Isla...
RICHARD ENGEL The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL ...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER