![The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-dirty-little-secret-is-that-both-houses-of-congress-are-irrelevant-ameri.jpg)
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running fitness nuts
running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut! Brenda Ueland
running way phantoms
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running car medical
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running breakup achievement
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running drama long
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running stupid mean
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running people events
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war
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war world saving
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
war simple doe
Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy. Carl von Clausewitz
war age peculiar
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war mind firsts
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war forever what-if
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war world remember
What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood! Calvin Coolidge
war hypocrite world
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dirty drove home late mud school tried wonder
As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again. 
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dirty mind terrible
A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.
dirty door shine tin
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dirty gun election
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dirty believe thinking
I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche. Stephen Fry
dirty gun naughty
I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail. Ted Nugent
dirty sweaters pants
No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money. McLean Stevenson
dirty feminism dirty-words
Feminism was a dirty word for a while. Miranda Richardson