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"People feel like there're two systems of justice, you know? Over there at Wells Fargo, you know, you had the scandal going on there, but the CEO leaves with a big, giant package. And other folks get in a whole lot of trouble for doing a lot less. The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again."
"When the South has trouble with its Negroes - when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" - it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin."
"My father? My father left when I was quite young. Well actually, he was asked to leave. He had trouble metabolizing alcohol."
"trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it."
"Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life."
"I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason."
"There is more talke then trouble."
"He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]"
"Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded."
"We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?"
"The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult."
"When we run ahead of God, we run into trouble."
"I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult."
"I am a whole lot of trouble."
"It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it."
"You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble."
"I know I'm going to get in trouble!"
"The average man don't like trouble and danger."
"I didn’t mean now,” he protested. “I’m not going to raise the child. I’m having enough trouble with Rachel."
"Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble? (Glenn)"
