Al D'Amato Quotes
I make sure that New York gets more than its fair share.
Alphonse D'Amato, U. S. Senator (Republican, NY), 1991
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While Blanc appears to have originated the famous phrase 35 years earlier, most people associate it with Marx. While not quite the exact same meaning, compare with Thoreau: {35837}
Senator Frank Church had explained his opposition to the President's Vietnam policy by showing him an article by the well known columnist Walter Lippmann.
This line was used at his trial to show that he had communist tendencies. He and the 9 others refused to answer a Congressional Committee’s questions about their political beliefs and affiliations. Trumbo served a year in jail for Contempt of Congress and then was blacklisted for years, but he was so good that Otto Preminger broke the Blacklist and hired him whereupon he was employed in many of the major films. He had actually won an Academy Award writing under the name of Robert Rich.
He was a master of political games, deceit and showmanship himself. Despite his and other politician’s rhetoric, Malaysia has been handicapped by extensive corruption, poor education, and a religiously (Islam) dominated civilian government and a view of rights that makes the individual subservient to the society. See {631572},
Alfonse Marcello D'Amato is an American lawyer and former New York politician. A Republican, he served as United States Senator from New York from 1981 to 1999. He subsequently founded a lobbying firm, Park Strategies.
