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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year. -- Daniel Ellsberg
The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders. -- John Jay Hooker
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense. -- Noam Chomsky
EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time. -- Daniel Ellsberg
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. -- Tom Stoppard
I've done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There's always another interview to do. It's quite something, I have to say. -- Roger Federer
In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. -- Daniel Ellsberg
The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers. -- Kenneth Waltz
I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. -- Jonah Goldberg
In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past. -- Peter Ackroyd
Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them. -- Joseph Sobran
The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience. -- Nancy Gibbs
In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published. -- Alan Dershowitz
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. -- Mortimer Adler
Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing. -- Nicholas Haslam
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. -- Will Smith
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. -- H. L. Mencken
I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers. -- Louise Nurding
After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. -- George W. Bush
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about. -- Whitfield Diffie
I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. -- Barry Goldwater
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. -- Peter McWilliams
I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills. -- Sharon Creech
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou. -- Ben Shapiro
So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change. -- Sanford I. Weill
I've done the best I can with the morning show. I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, you have the morning papers, you know, it's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted. -- Regis Philbin
Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. -- Etty Hillesum
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. -- Joshua Foer
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing. -- Herb Caen
We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers. -- Laura Bush
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. -- Floyd Abrams
As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it. -- Lou Holtz
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. -- Maya Angelou
It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie. -- Michael Jackson
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. -- Noam Chomsky
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me. -- Paul Auster
I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don't need much... a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it's very easy. -- Nicolas Berggruen
When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family. -- Thomas Sangster
I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside. -- Douglas Booth
I'm drowning in papers. -- Wislawa Szymborska
You don't need papers to vote... -- Francine Busby
Liberal papers are not necessarily liberal. -- Julian Assange
I always read the papers, the political bits. -- John Lennon
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. -- H. L. Mencken
There's so many differences of opinion in the papers. -- Kevin Pietersen
I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either -- Tom Holt
I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either. -- Tom Holt
I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers. -- Warren Buffett
Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers. -- Samantha Bond
All my high school papers were written in the rare book room. -- Jim Sanborn
No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures. -- Serena Williams
I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge. -- Jordan Sonnenblick
I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers. -- Mickey Kaus
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them -- Warren Buffett
I'm always studying. I probably wrote the most papers of any college quarterback. -- Robert Griffin III
I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder? -- Robert E. Howard
I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. -- Kurt Loder
Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October. -- Christine Keeler
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. -- John Edensor Littlewood
I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers. -- Nat Hentoff
Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it! -- Woody Allen
If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers -- Warren Buffett
The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story. -- Anthony Liccione
And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers. -- Rube Goldberg
If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers. -- Ivan KlÃma
I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me. -- Rebecca Loos
I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers. -- Andrea Bocelli
There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years. -- Ronald Biggs
I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held. -- Anna Held
When I wear a really nice and classy dress out, the papers never print it. -- Jodie Marsh
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew. -- Peter Landin
I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning. -- Umberto Eco
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk. -- Christopher Smart
I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print. -- Kevin Whately
Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing. -- Otis Rush
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. -- James Wolcott
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I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos. -- Jimmy Fallon
I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president. -- Hillary Clinton
Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction. -- Katherine Mansfield
I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is! -- Steve McClaren
I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve! -- Milton Berle
I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up. -- Cat Deeley
I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers. -- Jenna Bush
Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers. -- Matthew Freud
The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense. -- Vina Delmar
When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year? -- Christa McAuliffe
I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers. -- David Duke
The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington. -- Wendell Phillips
To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers. -- Sheila Nevins
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. -- Bill Veeck
After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers. -- Ronald Fisher
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers. -- Jamie Cullum
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. -- Edmund Wilson
My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear. -- Emo Philips
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. -- George Orwell
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. -- Will Rogers
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV. -- Damon Albarn
The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest. -- Jake Bugg
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts. -- Robert Dallek
Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible. -- John Desmond Bernal
I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that. -- Paul Simon
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate. -- Dexter Scott King
The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers. -- H. L. Mencken
I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am. -- Vince Cable
Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television. -- Walt Kelly
I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on. -- Xavi
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I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer. -- Graham Norton
If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip. -- Bernie Sanders
If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate. -- Eli Broad

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