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"I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad."
"The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity."
"It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed."
"The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health."
"A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations."
"When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown."
"After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from."
"Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population."
"The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process identified by evolutionists as the chief motor of biological change. The theory of punctuated equilibrium was, in its initial formulation, little more than this insight adumbrated."
"Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half."
"I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested."
"If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family."
"The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps."
"... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself."
"There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't"
"Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist."
"In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed by that. Those policies are designed to turn state power into an instrument that works for the wealthy. Maybe there are some crumbs for the rest of the population, maybe not. But that's given."
"The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down."
"One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."
"It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States."
