""We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people.""
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"September tries its best to have us forget summer."
"All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made."
"All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power."
"If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election."
"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
"If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost."
"I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid."
"I never got a lot done using a broomstick. You've got to have something that's lethal."