Smedley Butler The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. – Smedley Butler America Quotes Dollar Quotes Earns Quotes Flag Quotes Follow Quotes Overseas Quotes Percent Quotes Restless Quotes Soldiers Quotes Trouble Quotes War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
David Gerrold You have a billion people who know ‘Tribbles’ and only half a million who know my novel ‘The Man Who Folded Himself,’ which is one of my better-known books. – David Gerrold
Phil Collins And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right. – Phil Collins
Jane Yolen My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then after he dies, I write another book of poems as a farewell. The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing, and I do it with joy. – Jane Yolen
Bobby Seale I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue. – Bobby Seale
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