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 * I reserve the absolute right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.
 * Such statements seem more commonly attributed to Konrad Adenauer, though more recent claims that Abraham Lincoln said such a thing seems to have become common as well. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:50, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

 * Eggheads of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your yolks
 * Can we find a good source for this bon mot often attributed to Stevenson?

"Cat Bill" Veto
Being an entire document this actually would belong at Wikisource, but I am simply placing it here on the talk page for now, and am removing all but a portion of it from the article. ~ Kalki 22:53, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Famous Cat Bill Veto STATE OF ILLINOIS EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT SPRINGFIELD, April 23, 1949.

To the Honorable, the Members of the Senate of the Sixth-sixth General Assembly:

I herewith return, without my approval, Senate Bill No. 93, entitled, "An Act to Provide Protection to Insectivorous Birds by Restraining Cats." This is the so-called "Cat Bill." I veto and withhold my approval from this Bill for the following reasons:

It would impose fines on owners or keepers who permitted their cats to run at large off their premises. It would permit any person to capture or call upon the police to pick up and imprison, cats at large. It would permit the use of traps. The bill would have statewide application— on farms, in villages, and in metropolitan centers.

This legislation has been introduced in the past several sessions of the Legislature, and it has, over the years, been the source of much comment— not all of which has been in a serious vein. It may be that the General Assembly has now seen fit to refer it to one who can view it with a fresh outlook. Whatever the reasons for passage at this session, I cannot believe there is a widespread public demand for this law or that it could, as a practical matter, be enforced.

Furthermore, I cannot agree that it should be the declared public policy of Illinois that a cat visiting a neighbor's yard or crossing the highway is a public nuisance. It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. Many live with their owners in apartments or other restricted premises, and I doubt if we want to make their every brief foray an opportunity for a small game hunt by zealous citizens— with traps or otherwise. I am afraid this Bill could only create discord, recrimination and enmity. Also consider the owner's dilemma: To escort a cat abroad on a leash is against the nature of the cat, and to permit it to venture forth for exercise unattended into a night of new dangers is against the nature of the owner. Moreover, cats perform useful service, particularly in rural areas, in combating rodents— work they necessarily perform alone and without regard for property lines.

We are all interested in protecting certain varieties of birds. That cats destroy some birds, I well know, but I believe this legislation would further but little the worthy cause to which its proponents give such unselfish effort. The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in the age old problems of dog versus cat, bird versus bird, or even bird versus worm. In my opinion, the State of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency.

For these reasons, and not because I love birds the less or cats the more, I veto and withhold my approval from Senate Bill No. 93.

Respectfully, ADLAI E. STEVENSON, Governor

Veto Messages of Adlai E. Stevenson, Governor of Illinois, on Senate and House Bills Passed by the 66th General Assembly of Illinois. Springfield: State of Illinois, 1949.

moved this page back to Adlai Stevenson rather than Adlai Stevenson II
This Adlai Stevenson is by far the primary person referred to by this name, and he is rarely referred to as Adlai Stevenson II — that the WP article has retained that designation for some years now is merely an example of myopic bureaucratic inertia. The commons retains the far more common designation. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:36, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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The Stand (miniseries)

The Stand is a television miniseries, first broadcast in 1994, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, who also wrote the teleplay. It was directed by Mick Garris.

The miniseries version takes place in four parts, grouping four major themes of the original story. "The Plague" describes a lethal engineered flu that devastates the U.S. population, leaving only a smattering of people around the country. "The Dreams" explores these survivors' attempts to regroup, led by mysterious, opposing dreams of an old woman in Nebraska and a terrifying man in the West. "The Betrayal" shows the tentative rebuilding of civilization in Colorado, interrupted by a tragic betrayal. "The Stand" follows four of the survivors as they journey to make their stand against Randall Flagg, author King's archetypal man of evil.

Part I: The Plague

 * Major Len Carsleigh: We found him; we located Campion. He crash-landed on a one-stoplight town in East Texas.
 * Lieutenant General William "Billy" Starkey: He made it halfway across the country. How'd he do that?
 * MAJ Carsleigh: I don't know. But the important thing is, right now, we got a shot at containing this.
 * LTG Starkey: Is he dead or alive?
 * MAJ Carsleigh: He's dead.
 * LTG Starkey: Denninger says this thing has a communicability rate of over 99%. You understand what that means? Any chance of containing this went by the window when Campion bought his first takeout burger.
 * MAJ Carsleigh: We can't think that way, Billy.
 * LTG Starkey: Yeah, you're right. Of course you are. What about the rest of his family?
 * MAJ Carsleigh: They're dead, sir. Contact with the townspeople was minimal.
 * LTG Starkey: That doesn't matter. We're gonna have to shut that town down, lock it up, dig a moat around it.
 * MAJ Carsleigh: That operation's already on the launching pad, sir.
 * LTG Starkey: What kinda coverage you come up with?
 * MAJ Carsleigh: Anthrax. New strain.
 * LTG Starkey: [Laughs grimly] Yeah, it's a new one, all right! It's real new! It's very good at its job, too! Too good.
 * MAJ Carsleigh: Well, it's bad, General, but it could be worse.
 * LTG Starkey: Ha! How's that? What's the name of this town?
 * MAJ Carsleigh: Arnette. Arnette, Texas.

 * Dr. Herbert Denninger: Mr. Stuart Redman, Dr. Herbert Denninger. Would you mind accompanying us, please?
 * Stu Redman: Hey. You wanna take your hand off my arm, hoss?
 * Dr. Herbert Denninger: [To the soldier accompanying him] He was one of the men who had direct contact with Campion; put him in the truck. If he resists-
 * Stu Redman: I ain't gonna resist. Country don't mean dumb.

 * MAJ Carsleigh: We have a rather large problem in Wyoming, sir.
 * LTG Starkey: What large problem is that, Len?
 * MAJ Carsleigh: News team got out of Pine Bluff with some potentially damaging video tapes, sir.
 * LTG Starkey: Flu victims, body dumps?
 * MAJ Carsleigh: Little of both. And our ops, I'm told.
 * LTG Starkey: Well, we can't have that. Showing footage like that would not be in the national interest!
 * MAJ Carsleigh: Absolutely not, sir.
 * LTG Starkey: Well, do we know where these news people, these rabble rousers are now?
 * MAJ Carsleigh: Yes, sir, we do.
 * LTG Starkey: Get that video tape, Len. By any means necessary. Make it a priority.
 * MAJ Carsleigh: Yes, sir.

 * [When Stu stops cooperating with the Vermont CDC staff, Dr. Denninger enters in his isolation suit to talk to him.]
 * Dr. Denninger: Patty Greer says you've given her… quite a bit of trouble. She's quite upset.
 * Stu Redman: Well, that makes two of us. Being hijacked by a bunch of government sons of bitches in spacesuits does that to me every time. So, if you don't wanna see how quick I can rip a hole in that thing 'fore you can get outta here, you better give me a little information.

 * Nick Andros: Who are you, ma'am?
 * Mother Abagail: Abagail Freemantle. But folks 'round these parts just call me Mother Abagail. I'm a hundred and six years old, and I still make my own bread!

 * [Sheriff Baker and Dr. Soames see the beaten Nick Andros emerge from his cell.]
 * Sheriff Baker: When I was a boy, we caught ourselves a mountain lion back up in the hills. We shot it, 'n' dragged it back to town. What was left of that critter when we got home was the sorriest lookin' sight I've ever seen. You the second sorriest, boy.

 * [An isolation-suited Dr. Dietz enters Stu's room with a small animal cage.]
 * Dr. Dietz: I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. Meet Geraldo.
 * Stu Redman: Geraldo, huh?
 * Dr. Dietz: Um-hmm. Now, the virus your fellow townspeople contracted passes easily from human to guinea pig, and vice-versa, presumably. But Geraldo has been breathing your air, via convector, for the last three days. And Geraldo is fine and frisky, as you see. I'd call that rather comforting, wouldn't you?
 * Stu Redman: I see you're not taking any chances.
 * Dr. Dietz: That's not in my contract. However, it does appear there is absolutely nothing wrong with you, Mr. Redman. Or, may I call you "Stu"?
 * Stu Redman: Just don't call me Geraldo.
 * Dr. Dietz: All right, now, you listen up! I'm not responsible for you being here, or for the dead people in your home town. Neither is Denninger, or the nurses who come in to take your blood pressure.
 * Stu Redman: Then who is?
 * Dr. Dietz: No one. Everyone. God. Who knows?
 * [Stu starts coughing, causing Dietz et al. to scramble to leave the room.]
 * Stu Redman: Dietz! Calm down. I was just faking.
 * Dr. Dietz: Why… why would you do a thing like that?
 * Stu Redman: You talk about this thing in here like you were outside of it. I just wanted you to get a little taste of what it's like on the inside. How'd you like it?
 * Dr. Dietz: You stupid son of a bitch!
 * Stu Redman: Get the hell out. [Dietz and his men start to leave] Don't forget your damn guinea pig!
 * Dr. Dietz: You stupid son of a bitch!
 * Stu Redman: Get the hell out. [Dietz and his men start to leave] Don't forget your damn guinea pig!

 * [Later, after the hospital is shown to be deserted and its staff killed by the plague, a dying Dietz returns to Stu's room with a pistol]
 * Dr. Dietz: Just think, Stu. All of those tests we ran on you, and we never found a single immunity vector. Not one! What makes you so special? Have you been touched by God?
 * Stu Redman: [Warily] Where's your buddy, Denninger?
 * Dr. Dietz: He's dead. They're all dead. Everyone except me, and thee.
 * Stu Redman: And you're here to take care of me, is that it?
 * Dr. Dietz: Hole in one! [Goes into a coughing fit]
 * Stu Redman: Why?
 * Dr. Dietz: Why? Because I've decided a piece of chicken-fried crap like you doesn't deserve to live. Not with so many good men dying.
 * Stu Redman: Those "good men" caused this mess!

 * [On the phone, Larry talks to Arlene, his bartender friend in L.A.]
 * Larry Underwood: Listen, I'm gonna try and get the, uh… the afternoon flight back, so… you put on your sexiest number, I'm gonna take ya out to dinner, then I'll take ya out dancing… then maybe I'll just take ya.

 * [Larry walks along a New York City street. In the background, a robed man slowly approaches, ringing a bell.]
 * Monster Shouter: Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead! Bring out your—
 * [Suddenly the robed man lunges at Larry, grabbing his shirt and talking straight into his face.]
 * Monster Shouter: He's coming for you, Larry. The Man With No Face!

 * [Two men are boozing it up, cruising in their convertible down a remote Arizona highway.]
 * Poke: Ya know what time it is?
 * Lloyd Henreid: What time is it?
 * Poke: Time to make a cash withdrawal!
 * Lloyd Henreid: I heard that!
 * Poke: And if anybody — I mean anybody — says anything, or does anything to stop us…
 * [Lloyd talks into the barrel of Poke's gun.]
 * Lloyd Henreid: We gonna Pokerize 'em!
 * Poke: Dead right! Damn straight!

 * LTG Starkey: "Things fall apart. The center does not hold." [A] man named Yeats said that. I didn't understand that poem in college, Len. But I… must be getting smarter in my old age, because I understand it now. And one other line from that poem: "What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" I think that beast might be on its way, Len.
 * [Later, with all Army operations and the United States overall falling apart, Major Carsleigh hears a gunshot while working outside Starkey's office. The General has shot himself, pinning a paper to his uniform that says "GUILTY".]
 * Major Len Carsleigh: You were right, Billy... the center didn't hold. It didn't...

 * [Rae Flowers continues her radio talk show as the military invades the building.]
 * Rae Flowers: Tell ya what, Portland — it looks like the Marines have landed, and they don't look too happy.
 * [Frannie and her flu-ridden father are listening in horror.]
 * Frannie Goldsmith: This is a joke! Right? I mean, this has gotta be a joke!
 * Peter Goldsmith: I don't think so, Frannie. I really don't think so.
 * Rae Flowers: Hi, there. You're on the air.
 * Caller: Rae, you all right?
 * Rae Flowers: Well, to tell you the truth, honey, it doesn't look too good for the kid right now. Several soldiers have just broken into the studio. They— they're fully armed, and they're… they're dressed in some kind of protective clothing. They're wearing… they're wearing respirators on their faces.
 * [The soldiers break into Rae's studio.]
 * Soldier: Shut it down!
 * Rae Flowers: Hey, Bluto! You ever hear of a little number called freedom of speech?! Bill of Rights?! Any of that ring a bell? [to her audience] Folks, I've just been ordered by my uninvited Fascist guests to shut down, and I've refused. I think—
 * [Sounds of gunfire over the radio, then silence.]
 * Frannie Goldsmith: Oh my God, what's happening?!
 * Peter Goldsmith: I don't know, Frannie... I don't know.

 * [At night, on a desert highway, a tall, long-haired man in jeans spies a deer.]
 * Randall Flagg: Rub-a-dub-dub…
 * [He makes a gun-firing motion with his hand, light flashes, and the deer falls dead.]
 * Randall Flagg: … thanks for the grub.
 * [The robed Monster Shouter passes down the road ringing a bell, continuing his chanted warning]
 * The Monster Shouter: Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your --
 * [He sees Randall Flagg and stops still in his tracks, utterly terrified]
 * The Monster Shouter: ...the Dark Man...he is here!
 * [Flagg zaps him dead]

Part II: The Dreams

 * [Settling down to a rare steak dinner in the city, Larry and Nadine duck when they hear a gunshot.]
 * Nadine Cross: Oh, I think I lost my appetite.
 * Larry Underwood: We gotta get outta here.
 * Nadine Cross: I beg your pardon?
 * Larry Underwood: I mean, we gotta get outta the city. I mean, it's not just the odds of getting shot. You have any idea what it's going to smell like in two weeks? Five million people rotting in the July sun!
 * Nadine Cross: Ohhh-kay.
 * [Nadine pulls out a bottle of pills, but Larry stops her from taking any.]
 * Larry Underwood: What is that?!
 * Nadine Cross: Vitamin C.
 * Larry Underwood: Yeah, I'm sorry. It's none of my business.
 * Nadine Cross: Apology accepted...mostly because I think you're right. The Big Apple is baked.

 * [Repeated lines.]
 * Trashcan Man: Bump-dee-bump! My life for you!

 * [Abagail Freemantle talks to God as she works around Hemingford Home.]
 * Mother Abagail: I hear ya, Lord, and I'm in the way o' doin' your will… but I don't much like it!
 * Mother Abagail: Oh, I'll do what you say, Lord — don't I always? But even your own Son prayed that the cup be taken from his lips, and I'm… prayin' the same thing. Heh heh. Probably… get about the same answer, too! [laughs]
 * Mother Abagail: Oh, I'll do what you say, Lord — don't I always? But even your own Son prayed that the cup be taken from his lips, and I'm… prayin' the same thing. Heh heh. Probably… get about the same answer, too! [laughs]

 * [The Walkin' Dude visits Lloyd in his prison cell.]
 * Lloyd Henreid: Can you let me outta here, mister? I'll do anything you want.
 * Randall Flagg: You poor guy. You look like ka-ka! [giggles] Tell me something, Lloyd—
 * Lloyd Henreid: How do you know my name?
 * Randall Flagg: Lucky guess. How'd you stay alive so long?
 * Lloyd Henreid: I saw it coming down, and I saved up some food, that's how.
 * [Flagg points to Lloyd's cot, and the mattress pulls itself up, revealing a partially-eaten rat.]
 * Randall Flagg: Brer Rat, how'd he taste?
 * Lloyd Henreid: [snivelling] Poke should be here, not me! Everything was Poke's idea!
 * Randall Flagg: And you got stuck with nothin' to eat but Rat Tartar.
 * Randall Flagg: Oh! I never even introduced myself, did I? Pleased to meet you, Lloyd. Hope you guess my name.
 * Lloyd Henreid: Huh?
 * Randall Flagg: Oh, uh… nothing. Just a little classical reference.
 * ⇒ "Pleased to meet you / Hope you guess my name" are two lines from the chorus of The Rolling Stones' song "Sympathy for the Devil".
 * ⇒ "Pleased to meet you / Hope you guess my name" are two lines from the chorus of The Rolling Stones' song "Sympathy for the Devil".

Again, this is not Nadine, but Rita.

 * [Larry and Nadine argue over her refusal to enter the Lincoln Tunnel.]
 * Larry Underwood: And you've had plenty of those, thank you very much!
 * Nadine Cross: Hey! Give that back!
 * Larry Underwood: No, ma'am. I'm not gonna stand here in the middle of five million dead people, and watch you commit suicide!
 * [After he throws away her pills, Nadine storms off.]
 * Larry Underwood: Where're you going?
 * Nadine Cross: Going to the George Washington Bridge! By myself!
 * Larry Underwood: Pfft. I don't need this prima donna act… Missy! I really don't! You have fun… getting raped and murdered back on 7th Avenue! Sweetheart!
 * Larry Underwood: Pfft. I don't need this prima donna act… Missy! I really don't! You have fun… getting raped and murdered back on 7th Avenue! Sweetheart!

 * [Stu happily pets Glen Bateman's dog, Kojak.]
 * Stu Redman: He's the first dog I've seen in, uh… well, since the third week of June.
 * Glen Bateman: Yeah. Superflu took most of the dogs… right along with their idiot masters. Most unfair.

 * [Nadine dreams of the Dark Man.]
 * Nadine Cross: So… cold! No! He's warm, not you!
 * Randall Flagg: But I'm the one you belong to, Nadine. You are the Promised One.
 * Nadine Cross: [petulantly] Why me? Who promised?

 * [Nick, meeting Tom Cullen, applauds his mannequin displays posed to replace the missing townspeople.]
 * Tom Cullen: Thanks. Decoration is my hobby. M-O-O-N, that spells "hobby".
 * [While Nick is stymied trying to explain to an illiterate Tom that he's mute, Tom stares for a moment, then brightens.]
 * Tom Cullen: I got it, Mister! I got it! You're just like old Albion Packalot's hired man! Tom Cullen knows what that is! M-O-O-O-N, that spells "deaf and dumb"!
 * [Tom frets to Nick about how everyone "up and went to Kansas City".]
 * Tom Cullen: Everybody's… always talkin' about what a dull town this is, since the roller rink went bust. And there's just the drive-in theater out on Route 61, and… all they show is them diddly-daddly pictures, and they're all rated "X". M-O-O-N, that spells "X".
 * [Tom frets to Nick about how everyone "up and went to Kansas City".]
 * Tom Cullen: Everybody's… always talkin' about what a dull town this is, since the roller rink went bust. And there's just the drive-in theater out on Route 61, and… all they show is them diddly-daddly pictures, and they're all rated "X". M-O-O-N, that spells "X".

 * [Tom excitedly hops on the bicycle that Nick brought him.]
 * Tom Cullen: All right, I'm ready! Laws, yes! M-O-O-N, that spells "ready"!
 * [The two of them start out for Hemingford Home.]
 * Tom Cullen: Woo-hoo! M-O-O-N, that spells "Nebraska"!

 * [Nick and Tom meet up with spoiled-brat Julie Lawry.]
 * Julie Lawry: You're name's Tom, right?
 * Tom Cullen: Tom Cullen. M-O-O-N, that spells "Tom Cullen".

 * [On a Midwest highway, Ralph Bretner drives his pickup truck up alongside Tom and Nick on their bicycles.]
 * Ralph Bretner: Name's Ralph Bretner.
 * Tom Cullen: I'm Tom Cullen. M-O-O-N, that spells "Tom Cullen". I don't know his name, 'cause I can't read it. Sure wish I did, though — laws, yes.
 * [Nick hands Ralph a hastily scribbled note.]
 * Ralph Bretner: Your friend's name here is "Nick Andros". M-O-O-N, I-I guess that spells "Nick". [laughs]

And now this isn't Lucy, but Nadine.
 * [Larry is surprised by a woman travelling with a feral boy.]
 * Lucy Swan: I'm so pleased to meet you.
 * Larry Underwood: Yeah, same here, believe me. [to the boy] How ya doin', son?
 * [The boy pulls out a knife and nearly slashes Larry before the woman pulls him back.]
 * Larry Underwood: Whoa!
 * Lucy Swan: Put that away.
 * Larry Underwood: Nice kid! Has he had his rabies shots yet?
 * Lucy Swan: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He's–he's been… traumatized.
 * Larry Underwood: Haven't we all.

 * [Mother Abagail talks to Ralph and Nick about what God has told her. Ralph reads Nick's response.]
 * Ralph Bretner: Uh, Nick says that… he says he don't believe in God.
 * [Mother Abagail laughs.]
 * Mother Abagail: God bless ya, Nick! But it don't matter! He believes in you.

 * [On the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado, little Gina calls Tom over.]
 * Tom Cullen: What is it, Gina?
 * Gina McCone: A parade! Come on up and look!
 * [He stands on the truck bed and hoists Gina up to see further.]
 * Tom Cullen: Gosh, it is!
 * [Below them, a pack of motorcycles leads a caravan of other vehicles approaching.]
 * Tom Cullen: M-O-O-N, that spells parade.

Part III: The Betrayal

 * Lloyd Henreid: Flagg wants to see you.
 * Trashcan Man: [whispering intensely] My life for him. Yes. My life for him!
 * [The Rat Man turns to Lloyd, whispering.]
 * Rat Man: Dude's crazy.
 * Lloyd Henreid: Like we're not?

 * [Nadine has another dream about Flagg.]
 * Nadine Cross: I'm here. I came to you.
 * Randall Flagg: The bride cometh to the bridegroom as a flame to the wick of a lamp.
 * Nadine Cross: Is that the Bible?
 * Randall Flagg: Hmm, Danielle Steel, I think.

 * [Glen, Larry, Stu, and Ralph talk about the imminent restarting of the Boulder power station.]
 * Glen Bateman: The plague took the people, but it couldn't take the gadgets, could it? No, they're all still out there. Everything from electric can openers to cobalt bombs, just waiting for someone to come along and pick 'em up. And the scavenger hunt… starts today.
 * Ralph Bretner: Ah, hell, Professor. What's wrong with puttin' the rocks back in people's scotch?
 * Glen Bateman: It's the old way. And the old way was a death trip.
 * Stu Redman: That's a little heavy, don'tcha think?
 * Glen Bateman: Do you? There's an old woman down there who might tell ya different, East Texas. If she'd talk about this end of it at all, that is.
 * Stu Redman: What's the problem?
 * Glen Bateman: I don't know if there is one. But I know I'm very concerned about the way things are going. She wants a mass meeting. Except she says it's really God who wants the meeting. We say, "Fine. You're fine, Mother. God's fine, too." And then we go right back to tinkering with the power station, trying to recreate the world that damn near choked the human race to death. What's wrong with this picture?

 * [Nadine, her back turned to Mother Abagail, is next in the new arrivals' greeting line.]
 * Mother Abagail: [Sharply] Who's this woman who comes?!
 * [Nadine turns to look at the old woman.]
 * Randall Flagg: [in Nadine's mind] Go to her!
 * Nadine Cross: My name is Nadine Cross.
 * Mother Abagail: [Warily] Mayhap it is, and mayhap it ain't!
 * Nadine Cross: I'm from New York.
 * Mother Abagail: Mayhap you are…
 * Nadine Cross: [muttering] Mayhap I ain't.
 * [She looks up.]
 * Nadine Cross: I won't keep you long.
 * [She slowly climbs the steps toward Abagail.]
 * Nadine Cross: You look so tired. Of course, anyone your age is bound to tire easily, isn't that so?
 * [She holds out her hand, but Joe rushes past her to hug Mother Abagail.]
 * Mother Abagail: Hello, Joe, what'd'ya know? [laughs]

 * [The new Boulder Free Zone Committee meets to discuss Mother Abagail's unexpected departure and their own next move.]
 * Ralph Bretner: Flagg is our business right now. And we'll have to trust Mother Abagail… to her God.
 * Glen Bateman: Our friend in the cowboy boots and jean jacket isn't gonna just sit over there on his side of the Rockies playing mumblety-peg, you know.

 * [At a barbecue, the Committee discusses plans to send spies to scope out Flagg's activities in Vegas.]
 * Larry Underwood: Well… we haven't been elected one whole day yet, and already we've managed to, uh, reinvent the CIA. Who needs Monday Night Football?
 * Larry Underwood: Oh my God, I'm a politician. This isn't Colorado, it's Hell!
 * Larry Underwood: I can't believe we're doin' this!
 * Stu Redman: Hey, if you didn't wanna get your hands dirty, you shoulda stayed off the Committee in the first place! We're probably sendin' people off to get killed!
 * Larry Underwood: Yeah?
 * Stu Redman: Yeah, that's right! Makin' decisions like that is what bein' in charge is all about! Either grow up and do it, or get out!
 * [Everyone stares at Larry in silence.]
 * Larry Underwood: You're awful cute when you get angry, Stu.
 * [Everyone stares at Larry in silence.]
 * Larry Underwood: You're awful cute when you get angry, Stu.

 * [The Committee hypnotizes Tom to prepare him to be a scout, but find that he's surprisingly aware while under.]
 * Frannie Goldsmith: Are you the same Tom that Nick met in Oklahoma?
 * Tom Cullen: Yes. No. I'm God's Tom.
 * Stu Redman: Look. And then you come back here to Boulder, when the moon is full. Do you understand?
 * Tom Cullen: Yes! M-O-O-N… spells moon.
 * Tom Cullen: Yes! M-O-O-N… spells moon.

 * [Tom Cullen is now working at Indian Springs AFB, where his coworkers call him "Moose".]
 * Barry Dorgan: And get the toolkit outta the cab and take it into the hangar office.
 * Tom Cullen: You bet! M-O-O-N, that spells "toolkit"!

 * [Harold is working on explosives in his basement, listening to "Boogie Fever". Nadine tries to get his attention by killing the music.]
 * Harold Lauder: What the hell are you doing? Don't screw with my disco, Nadine!
 * Nadine Cross: Is everything all right?
 * Harold Lauder: No.
 * [He holds up three sticks of dynamite, taped together and fused.]
 * Harold Lauder: If I had dropped this, you would be washing my guts out of your pretty white hair for the next two weeks.
 * Nadine Cross: I'm sorry.
 * Harold Lauder: Let me make a suggestion, my little disco queen. Take a walk.
 * Nadine Cross: Take a walk?
 * Harold Lauder: Yes! A walk. Because, you see, I have no idea how old this stuff is. I do know that old dynamite sweats pure nitroglycerin. So, take a walk, and, if you hear a very loud bang, that will probably be me going to that great disco inferno in the sky. Make like a library, and book.

 * [After Nadine conceals the bomb in Frannie's closet, she returns to Harold.]
 * Harold Lauder: Nadine?
 * Nadine Cross: What?
 * Harold Lauder: We're damned.
 * Nadine Cross: Yes. I know.

 * [As Nick frantically digs through Frannie's closet, and the Committee rushes to leave the house…]
 * Nadine Cross: Do it, Harold! Do it!

 * [After being blown violently across the yard by the explosion, Frannie and the rest of the main cast is talking to Mother Abagail.]
 * Mother Abagail: You're not to go. Only these four: Stuart, Ralph, Larry, and Glen. You'll abide—
 * Frannie Goldsmith: No, Stuart's not going anywhere! He's gonna stay with me when I have my baby! Neither one of us is going to have any more to do with your killer god!
 * Mother Abagail: The Devil's imp has called his bride to put her with child. Will he let your child live, little girl?
 * [Frannie collapses, sobbing.]
 * Mother Abagail: Father, mother, wife, husband. Set against them… the Prince o' High Places! I have sinned in pride! So have you all! That's passed now. It's time now… to give over your will… to the will o' God. It's time to make your stand.

 * [Mother Abagail's last (living) words.]
 * Mother Abagail: You… your four men… are to go west… to take no food or water, but to go this very day in the clothes you now wear. You are to go on foot. I'm in the way of knowin' one will fall by the way, but I don't know which it will be. I'm in the way of knowin' the others will be taken before this Flagg, who isn't a man, but a creature from beyond the world. I don't know… if you will defeat him. I only know… God wants you to go, and with God's help, you will stand, and be true.
 * Frannie Goldsmith: And what if we say no?!
 * Stu Redman: Frannie, come on—
 * Frannie Goldsmith: What?!
 * Stu Redman: Come on, shhh.
 * Mother Abagail: Your will is as free as that of Eve in the Garden, child. "Go where ye list" has always been God's way, but… this is what God wants of you. Be true! Stand.

Part IV: The Stand

 * Lloyd Henreid: And remember what I told you — don't mark him!
 * Dave Roberts: Right! I mean, copy!
 * Lloyd Henreid: [to himself] If black powder were brains, that guy couldn't blow his nose.
 * Lloyd Henreid: [to himself] If black powder were brains, that guy couldn't blow his nose.

 * [Dayna, her cover blown, gets an undesired audience with Flagg.]
 * Dayna Jurgens: What happened to the chairs?
 * Randall Flagg: Oh, I had them taken out. [laughs] Liars sit in chairs, you know? Truth tellers just sort of… hunker down.
 * [Flagg tells Dayna about his problems psychically seeing who the third spy is.]
 * Randall Flagg: But every time I try to see this third spy… all I can see… is the Moon. "M-O-O-N, that spells moon."
 * [Flagg mentions Mother Abagail's death in passing.]
 * Dayna Jurgens: Mother Abagail is not dead.
 * Randall Flagg: Oh… I'm afraid she is.
 * Dayna Jurgens: I don't believe it.
 * Randall Flagg: She died in a coma… without saying a word.
 * Dayna Jurgens: I don't believe it.
 * Randall Flagg: She died in a coma… without saying a word.

 * [Tom, still safely undercover, spies the full moon at night.]
 * Tom Cullen: When the Moon is full. M-O-O-N… spells "moon".

 * [After Stu realizes that Harold is dead…]
 * Stu Redman: May God have mercy on his poor excuse for a soul.

 * [Nadine finally meets Flagg, physically, in the desert.]
 * Nadine Cross: I waited so long.
 * Randall Flagg: The waiting's over.

 * Glen Bateman: Yeah, there's a perfectly good reason for this little stroll, you know. And Mother Abagail knew it when she sent us out the way she did, with just the clothes on our backs. Our bellies are empty, and, more importantly, our heads are empty.
 * Ralph Brentner: Hell — mine was pretty empty to begin with.
 * [They all laugh.]
 * Glen Bateman: Yeah, well, I'm serious. We're out here in the middle of the Great American Nowhere, minus all the baggage we used to carry every place we went. She wanted us cleaned out. Empty. Ready to be filled up again by some new thing. Maybe a great thing. Almost certainly the last thing.

 * [Briefly coming out of her silent stupor, Nadine grins at Lloyd and company.]
 * Nadine Cross: We… are… dead… and… this… is… Hell!

 * [Lloyd finally informs Flagg about spy Tom Cullen, only to find himself being throttled against the wall.]
 * Randall Flagg: You let me go upstairs without telling me?! I could pop your neck like a tick!

 * [Nadine slowly edges up onto the balcony ledge as she tells Flagg how his plans are coming apart.]
 * Nadine Cross: They're coming for you, you know. The old woman sent them before she died.
 * Randall Flagg: Get your ass back in here.
 * Nadine Cross: Everything you've made here is falling apart. They're saying a simple retarded boy outwitted Randall Flagg. They're saying Judge Farris got away from your man in Idaho.
 * Randall Flagg: He's as dead as Judas Iscariot.
 * Nadine Cross: They're asking questions about Dayna, too. It's all slipping through your fingers. And they're whispering, Randy. I can see them, leaving their posts in the dead of night, and your eye can't see them. And when they come here — Stu… and Ralph… and Glen… and La— when they get here, your time will end, and I'll be watching. I'll be watching from Hell, with your baby in my arms!

 * [Larry objects to leaving Stu behind.]
 * Larry Underwood: This is no game, Stu.
 * Glen Bateman: Stu's right, Larry. Mother Abagail said one of us would fall by the way.
 * Larry Underwood: W-what does that mean? Huh? What are you saying? You're a college professor, for god sakes!
 * Glen Bateman: Not anymore. In case you hadn't noticed, Larry, school is out.
 * Larry Underwood: Look, I thought he was your friend!
 * Glen Bateman: Of course he's my friend. But that doesn't matter now.
 * Ralph Brentner: It's God's plan—
 * Larry Underwood: Shut up about God! I'm sick of hearing about God!
 * Stu Redman: This whole trip was based on the idea that Mother Abagail knew what she was talkin' about.
 * Ralph Brentner: That's right.
 * Larry Underwood: It's not right. It's not right! This isn't God's will, or God's plan! It's a washout! And you got a broken leg, Stu, and I'm not gonna leave you here!
 * Stu Redman: When we came on this trip, we put our lives in the hands of Mother Abagail's God. Now, that hasn't changed. If he wants me to eat, he'll send food. If he wants me to drink… he'll send rain. It's his business. Yours… is to go against Flagg! Now, you've got to do that, and you've got to go without me!
 * Larry Underwood: [choking back tears] Man… do you know how crazy that sounds? Do you know how totally damn crazy that sounds?!
 * Larry Underwood: [choking back tears] Man… do you know how crazy that sounds? Do you know how totally damn crazy that sounds?!

 * [Glen hands Stu his pain pills.]
 * Glen Bateman: More than three or four would probably be fatal. Do you know that?
 * Stu Redman: Yeah, I suppose so.

 * [Barry Dorgan, his clipboard-wielding deputy Burlson, and a pack of armed guards stop the Boulder trio on the road.]
 * Barry Dorgan: By virtue of the power vested in me, smartass, you're under arrest.
 * Ralph Brentner: In whose name?
 * Barry Dorgan: You know who I speak for.
 * Ralph Brentner: Then why don't you say it?
 * [Dead silence.]
 * Ralph Brentner: Well, I'll say it for ya. Calls himself Randall Flagg, but who he really is, is an apostate of Hell. Now, you got that in your little clipboard there, Mr. Burlson?
 * Paul Burlson: I wonder if you men might give me your Social Security numbers?
 * [Larry, Ralph, and Glen look at each other and burst out laughing.]
 * [Larry holds up his hands when the thugs start waving their guns.]
 * Larry Underwood: Relax! You don't need those. That's why we came here. We got a message for your little tin god.
 * Barry Dorgan: Tin god? Tin god. Man, that's funny. I spent 22 years on the Santa Monica P.D., and I know what happens when guys like you end up runnin' the show. We haven't got a single addict in Vegas. Can your people say the same?
 * Glen Bateman: Mr. Dorgan, even a man of your apparently limited intelligence should be able to see that your experiences with a few battered babies and drug abusers doesn't justify your embrace of a monster!
 * [Dorgan smacks Glen across the face, knocking him down.]
 * Larry Underwood: Oh, that's great. Very good! You get the Rodney King Humanitarian Award for the day, pal.
 * [One of the thugs jams a rifle butt into Larry's stomach.]
 * Glen Bateman: It's almost over for them now, Larry. Can you feel it?
 * Glen Bateman: It's almost over for them now, Larry. Can you feel it?

 * [In his cell in Las Vegas, Glen muses on a cockroach skittering around the prison floor.]
 * Glen Bateman: You're quite a piece of work, Mr. Cockroach. We could take a lesson from you, especially in light of recent events. I have an idea that… I'll be gone, come this time tomorrow. But you'll still be trucking, won't you? Running your little roach errands.
 * [Suddenly a boot stomps on the roach. Pan up to reveal a grinning Flagg.]
 * Randall Flagg: That's a wrap on the roach.
 * Randall Flagg: Actually, uh… I've decided to let you go.
 * Glen Bateman: Really? Marvelous. Of course, I couldn't go without my friends.
 * Randall Flagg: Oh, of course not! No, you'll all go together. Tomorrow morning. Tonight, if you prefer. And, uh… once again, all you have to do is ask. Only… for a favor of this magnitude… I really think you ought to do it on your knees.
 * [Bateman bursts out in tremendous laughter.]
 * Randall Flagg: Stop it. Stop laughing at me!
 * Glen Bateman: Sorry! It's just that… it's just that we made such… such a business of you, and it turns out you're nothing more than another cockroach, scurrying around, running little roach errands! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
 * Randall Flagg: Shoot him.
 * Lloyd Henreid: What?
 * Randall Flagg: You heard me!
 * [Lloyd pulls out his gun, then looks back at Flagg.]
 * Randall Flagg: SHOOT HIM, YOU IDIOT! SHOOT HIM!
 * Lloyd Henreid: He's an old man.
 * [Flagg starts to move toward Lloyd, who casually fires into the bars without effect.]
 * Randall Flagg: Can't you do anything RIGHT?! HE'S STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT O' YA!
 * Glen Bateman: If you really feel you must shoot somebody, Mr. Henreid, I suggest Flagg. His world is crumbling, and we both know it. I think we also both know he can do a lot of damage on his way down. You could change that.
 * Randall Flagg: Well, shoot one of us, anyway.
 * [Lloyd finally puts several shots into Glen, point-blank. Glen falls, then turns back toward Lloyd.]
 * Glen Bateman: It's all right, Mr. Henreid. You don't know any better.
 * [Lloyd finally puts several shots into Glen, point-blank. Glen falls, then turns back toward Lloyd.]
 * Glen Bateman: It's all right, Mr. Henreid. You don't know any better.

 * [As Dorgan oversees the chaining of Ralph and Larry to crossed metal bars…]
 * Larry Underwood: Tell me something, chief! They teach you this one in Santa Monica P.D.?

 * [As Lloyd tries to deal with Trashcan Man and his nuclear missile, Flagg's energy bolt suddenly rises from the two bodies and begins to transform.]
 * Mother Abagail: [voiceover] The promise has been kept as God has willed it. Amen.
 * Ralph Brentner: Larry! Do you see it?
 * Larry Underwood: The Hand of God!
 * [As the Hand wraps itself around the missile…]
 * Mother Abagail: [voiceover] You done good, boys. Come on home.
 * Mother Abagail: [voiceover] You done good, boys. Come on home.

 * [From their vantage point above the washout, Stu and Tom see the nuclear explosion on the horizon.]
 * Stu Redman: "I saw a pale horse, and a pale rider upon it. The name of the horse was Pestilence. The name of the rider was Death."
 * Tom Cullen: What was it, Stu?
 * Stu Redman: It's the end of Las Vegas, Tommy. And the end of Randall Flagg… if God is good.

 * [Tom is trying to nurse Stu back to health.]
 * Tom Cullen: This'll make you feel better, Stu! It's peanut butter and jelly! M-O-O-N, that spells "peanut butter and jelly"!

 * [After seeing Frannie's baby, Stu turns to Larry's widow, Lucy.]
 * Stu Redman: Lucy… Larry—
 * Lucy Swan: N-no, I know. I know what happened. I'm… sure that when the end came, they, um… met it on their feet. And that's what they were sent out there to do, wasn't it? To stand?
 * Stu Redman: I reckon it was.
 * Lucy Swan: He's gone… but I'll have his baby. Maybe… it's not all I wanted, or all I dreamed of having… but it'll have to be enough.

Cast

 * Gary Sinise … Stu Redman
 * Molly Ringwald … Frannie Goldsmith
 * Jamey Sheridan … Randall Flagg
 * Laura San Giacomo … Nadine Cross
 * Ruby Dee … Mother Abagail Freemantle
 * Ossie Davis … Judge Richard Farris
 * Miguel Ferrer … Lloyd Henreid
 * Corin Nemec … Harold Lauder
 * Matt Frewer … Trashcan Man
 * Adam Storke … Larry Underwood
 * Ray Walston … Glen Bateman
 * Rob Lowe … Nick Andros
 * Bill Fagerbakke … Tom Cullen
 * Peter Van Norden … Ralph Brentner
 * Max Wright … Dr. Herbert Denninger
 * Bridgit Ryan … Lucy Swann
 * Kellie Overbey … Dayna Jurgens
 * Shawnee Smith … Julie Lawry
 * Kareem Abdul-Jabbar … Monster Shouter

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Talk:Joe Louis

Joe Louis quotes
Who found all of these quotes? You see, I'm doing a project about things or people that lived, or were going on, during 1930's. It just so happens that I am doing my report on Joe Louis and I have to do a work cited page, and I wanted to give credit to whomever gathered these together..... Hope you don't mind, and I think whomever did find these are so very awesome, cause I, of course, wouldn't have been able to otherwise.

'T wern't I...I only quote kosher quacks...

Unsourced
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 * Every man I get beat by is the hardest hitter.
 * Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
 * I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
 * I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.
 * I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.
 * Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.
 * Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy…
 * Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.
 * You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
 * Your job helps your family, and your family is forever.
 * Everyone's got a plan until they get hit.
 * There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

Quotes about Louis (unsourced)

 * Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.
 * Tommy Farr
 * He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.
 * Max Baer
 * He was a credit to his race – the human race…
 * Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter
 * (I define fear as) standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
 * Max Baer
 * Joe Louis uncovers dynamite.
 * Richard Wright
 * Every Negro boy old enough to walk wanted to be the next Brown Bomber.
 * Malcom X
 * I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest. (Note: this quote is sometimes said to be about fellow boxer Sugar Ray Robinson)
 * Muhammad Ali
 * Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano certainly could have beaten him.
 * Joe Frazier
 * Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.
 * Angelo Dundee
 * There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.
 * George Foreman
 * When you're a great finisher, you’ll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.
 * Mike Tyson

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J. Edgar Hoover

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924. He was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. The FBI's current headquarters is named in honor of him.

Quotes by Hoover

 * [Whoever did this] must be exterminated, and they must be exterminated by us.
 * On the perpetrators of the Kansas City Massacre of 1933, as quoted in Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough (2004: Penguin), p. 51.

 * Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
 * News summaries (7 April 1955).

 * Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
 * Look magazine (14 June 1956).

 * We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don’t clear anybody. We don’t condemn anybody.
 * Look magazine (14 June 1956).

 * The menace of communism in this country will remain a menace until the American people make themselves aware of the techniques of communism. No one who truly understands what it really is can be taken in by it. Yet the individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.
 * The Elks Magazine (August 1956).

 * Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
 * "What I Would Tell a Son" Family Weekly (14 July 1963).

 * Justice is merely incidental to law and order [...] Law and order is what covers the whole picture.
 * On CBS News in 1968 with Walter Cronkite, cited by Beverly Gage "America Is Safer Than It Used to Be. So Why Do We Still Have Calls for ‘Law and Order’?" The New York Times (August 30, 2016)

 * You state that the Bureau under the [ counter-intelligence program] should not attack programs of community interest such as the [ ] "Breakfast for Children." … You have obviously missed the point ... This program was formed by the BPP for obvious reasons, including their efforts to create an image of civility, assume community control of Negroes, and to fill adolescent children with their insidious poison.
 * "Racial Intelligence: Black Panther Party (BPP)" (27 May 1969).

 * Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt [ Black Panther Party] and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.
 * Memo (16 Sept. 1970).

Quotes about Hoover

 * In alphabetical order by author or source.

 * [T]he whole political structure in Washington is partly designed to protect the Southern oligarchy. And Bobby Kennedy's much more interested in politics than he is in any of these things, and so for that matter, is his brother. And furthermore, even if Bobby Kennedy were a different person, or his brother, they are also ignorant, as most white Americans are, of what the problem really is, of how Negroes really live. The speech Kennedy made to Mississippi the night James Meredith was carried there was one of the most shameful performances in our history. Because he talked to Mississippi as if there were no Negroes there. And this had a terrible, demoralizing, disaffecting effect on all Negroes everywhere. One is weary of being told that desegregation is legal. One would like to hear for a change that it is right! Now, how one begins to use this power we were talking about earlier is a very grave question, because first of all you have to get Eastland out of Congress and get rid of the power that he wields there. You've got to get rid of J. Edgar Hoover and the power that he wields. If one could get rid of just those two men, or modify their power, there would be a great deal more hope. How in the world are you going to get Mississippi Negroes to go to the polls if you remember that most of them are extremely poor, most of them almost illiterate, and that they live under the most intolerable conditions? They are used to it, which is worse, and they have no sense that they can do anything for themselves. If six Negroes go to the polls and get beaten half to death, and one or two die, and nothing happens from Washington, how are you going to manage even to get the ballot?
 * 1969 interview in Conversations with James Baldwin edited by Louis H. Pratt and Fred L. Standley (1989)

 * Granddad: Now, just calm down, boy. You’re overreacting.
 * Huey: Overreacting?! These people named an elementary school after J. Edgar Hoover and I’m overreacting? Am I the only person who’s heard of “COINTELPRO”? I mean, why Hoover? Why not, oh, Strom Thurmond? Or George Wallace. Huh?!
 * Granddad: I think they named the middle school after George Wallace…
 * Huey: WHAT?!
 * Granddad: That was a joke, boy. Loosen up already.
 * Huey: I hate this place.
 * The Boondocks (comic strip), (8/26/1999)

 * individual memories are not nearly as long as the memories of institutions, and especially repressive institutions. The FBI is still haunted by the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover.
 * Angela Davis Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2015)

 * Seventy years ago, Gallup asked Americans for their opinion of J. Edgar Hoover. Only 2 per cent expressed strong disapproval. It was a result, the pollsters claimed, "virtually without parallel in surveys that have dealt with men in public life".
 * Deborah Friedell "Something on Everyone", London Review of Books, 45:15 (July 27, 2023)

 * I am talking about 1919, 1920, that Mr. J. Edgar Hoover first put in his appearance. He was put in charge of these raids and all reports of all over the country were to be made to him, and they were called "G" men. The FBI came into existence a little later - in 1924. So he has had this kingdom for 38 years now, regardless of administrations and it is not actually under Civil Service or under the control of the Department of Justice.
 * Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, "Memories Of The Industrial Workers Of The World" (November 8, 1962)

 * It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
 * Lyndon Johnson, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971).

 * I never saw any indication of homosexual tendencies in Hoover.… He did have a close association with [Clyde] Tolson. They conferred frequently during the day and they invariably ate lunch together…. On Wednesday they had dinner at Tolson's apartment, on Friday at Hoover's house.… I know from my talks with Hoover that he was genuinely fond of Tolson, as an older brother might be.
 * W. Mark Felt in The FBI Pyramid from the Inside (1979).

 * The FBI was most disturbed by the Panthers' survival programs providing community service. The popular free breakfast program, in which the party provided free hot breakfasts to children in Black communities throughout the United States, was, as already noted, a particular thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover. Finding little to criticize about the program objectively, the Bureau decided to destroy it.
 * Huey P. Newton, War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America (June 1980)

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Talk:Coronation Street

So few quotes!
As of this comment, there are three quotes altogether. I would have expected there to be a way greater amount. Looks like it's time to get to work, then. Constafrequent 06:23, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Classis corrie quote
(sitting in the Rovers talking about death)

Ena Sharples: If I had my way, I'd like to go like me mother did. Minnie Caldwell: Ooh, that were a beautiful ending. Ena Sharples: Oh, lovely. She just sat up, broke wind, and died.

Cleanup
Moved a few things, and removed cleanup tag. Though quotes are not arranged by episode as the template recommends, this is probably a better way of laying them out for such a lengthy program. I have not added a cast list as this would be enormous for this program, and it would be difficult to select a few important actors bearing in mind this has had a fifty-year span. Soph 02:02, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Iddo999

MASSIVE-ATTACK?
Your Request, well it looks like you have it under control, why did you call me over? Markie 21:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Why the hell are you such a jerk?

RE: it wasent me
Then why do you keep writing rude messages to me on Wikinews? Markie 21:42, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * What is that supossed to mean? And how can you explain this? Markie 21:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

 * It's not me, I don't have a wikinews account. It's the vandal... See my response on your usertalk page here. The explaination is that this vandal created a wikinews account with my username, and he uses it to annoy you on wikinews. I guess we'll have to talk to the wikinews admins and delete that account. I think wikimedia admins can see IP addresses and verify this stuff? I also recall wikimedia had some automated feature to detect sockpuppets using IPs? iddo999 21:50, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Markie and Iddo999 account
Hi Iddo is Markie from Wikinews. We have an account on Wikinews that is using your name to create trouble and it looks like you have one here that is creating trouble. I would appriciate it if you could block the user using my name here and i will do the same for the user using your name on Wikinews. Thanks N:User:Markie
 * Cheers for the block but copuld you make it indef please until i have time to sort the whole mess out. Thansk --81.129.44.180 22:01, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Hehe, he fooled me, I thought I was talking to the real you... OK, but before I change the block status, please verify again by responding that you want the Markie account here to be on a permanent block (and should I delete the Markie userpage and usertalk pages here?), or if you want to take over the wikiquote account here with your name, instead of blocking it. Regarding my fake account on wikinews: I don't wish to do editing on wikinews, therefore if it's ok then I request that you delete the fake (and duplicated) userpage on wikinews (and also the usertalk page), and do a permanent block for my usename on wikinews. Thank you. iddo999 22:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Could you also block User:IDENTITYCONFIRM. I am an admin on Wikinews and I happened to see an alert about this on Wikinews' admin alerts page. Just thought I would notify you of this account also. FWN 22:17, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Could you please extend User:IDENTITYCONFIRM's and Markie's block to indef. Thanks. FWN 22:31, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, done. If possible, please delete my fake/duplicated userpage on wikinews. Thanks. iddo999 22:37, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

About Ron Paul
I notice that few of the entries in the "Quotes about Ron Paul" section name the sources. In the case of a quote from Andrew Sullivan which I had added, you deleted the source. It's useful, certainly, to have links provided; but what happens when links go bad? You can see an example of this with the Michael Moore quote on the Rudy Giuliani page. A link was provided, but the link is now dead. Links are useful to allow the reader to verify and read more, but are they a substitute for naming sources in an article? - InvisibleSun 20:04, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't have a strong position on whether or not to name the sources in 'about' quotes. Because I consider the 'about' section to be less important than the other sections, I find it reasonable to keep it compact on the expense of being descriptive. Also, in most cases the source name actually exist inside the link (in your case "daily dish" is part of the link so if someone hovers over the link he can see it), so the damage isn't that great. The reason that made me modify your source was that the template didn't fit the date format ("nnnn-nn-nn" where different countries use different order for month/day, so some people aren't sure which is which, as opposed to something like "January 1, 1999" which is unambitious, and also sometimes the precise day is unclear so e.g. "February 1998" is useful). Maybe we should change the template, or bring up the issue in village pump? Anyway, if you'd like to restore the source names, then maybe you better do it for all the quotes, for the sake of uniformity? But if you do, please try to keep it as compact as possible. In the case of 'about' quotes, I personally prefer to add source names or other descriptive info only in particular places where it actually clarifies something. iddo999 22:47, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Chomsky
I just wanted to pop in here and say that Noam Chomsky is an excellent resource, and let you know that I have replied to s:Wikisource:Scriptorium

p.s. on Wikisource, you can set your preferences to be emailed as soon as a watched page is modified. Jayvdb 00:14, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

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Request for comment on MonsterHunter32
I am asking the community to comment about the censorship of this user that I have already alerted about here Talk:India and at other places, but it didn't help. What should be done about the continued massive removal of sourced quotes by  when he refuses to even move the quotes to the talkpage with full reasoning for each quote as was asked by multiple users many many times? You can read more about it at the link above, and at the other discussions linked in that discussion.

What would be most helpful would be if other editors could add comments to the summary table here Talk:India.

Since you are an admin, I would also welcome your view on the following.

Other editors and me have previously told many times that the following rule based on Template:Remove should be strictly observed by him:

 * All quotes removed by User:MonsterHunter32 must always be moved by him to the article talkpage with a note that they were removed from the article, giving full reasoning (for each removed quote), as required by Template:Remove. Otherwise, the status quo (uncensored) version should be kept and/or restored.

This really is the bare minimum that must be enforced. If MonsterHunter32 as a rule continues to refuse to do this, I don't see how any meaningful discussion of the deleted quotes is possible at all.

Please note that this was asked to him dozens of times, and dozens of times he continues to ignore it.

Can you please help ensure that MonsterHunter32 observes this? He has been told this dozens of times by multiple users, but I will notify him again about this on his talkpage (my last notification was promptly deleted by him). If he starts edit warring again without observing this rule, he should be blocked, or at least the page be protected.

Please let me know if you have a different interpretation of any of the above. Thanks.

 * Observing the rule above based on Template:Remove is the bare minimum, but it will not solve the tendentious edit warring of MonsterHunter32:

 *  has done blanked and censored dozens of quotes, most of them without ANY discussion on the talkpage, without moving the censored quotes to talk, and with very poor excuses (like that he only needs to "explain" his mass-blanking of many quotes in the same edit in his edit summary)
 * He refuses to discuss to discuss his censorship on talk, and just continues edit-warring.
 *  has admitted that he is "monitoring me constantly". That is called stalking and is extremely disruptive.
 *  has done numerous personal attacks, baiting and attacking me and others for my or their alleged religious beliefs or opinions or alleged bias, using religious or political smears against me and others.

 * MonsterHunter32 as a rule refuses to make the slightest concession that the quotes might be notable for other people than him. He will never admit that he was wrong, he will never make the slightest concession to me. That is not good faith discussing. Discussion with someone who as a rule and always refuses to make the slightest concession that he might be wrong, or that others may have different opinions than him, is becoming a waste of time. Maybe even worse are the misrepresentations, dishonesty and personal attacks.

 * This is what other editors have said about :

 * "I believe MonsterHunter32 is being extremely annoying and disruptive."

 * "I was originally under the impression that to take part in this argument would require extensive research. I started by looking at Monsterhunter’s edits. It did not take long to indentify a general theme. He appears to be blanking large selections of quotes, with the poor justification that he was fixing the articles so that they would have a neutral point of view. However, that did not seem to be the case. Even if it was true, I don’t see why people that claim is important. Wikiquote serves as a site that collects quotes from reliable sources, and if the people being quoted were biased, that doesn’t mean the quote should be removed. If he feels that Jedi3 is adding too many of these quotes, than he may “combat” it by adding other quotes that he feels are appropriate. Edit-warring is not the answer."

 * " I would simply suggest that rather than trying to delete the page one should instead try to find properly sourced and relevant quotes that might represent an alternative POV. "

 * "I see no creditable reason for eliminating a page .... because the creator of the page is disliked...."

 * "Since when do users need to add an explanation for why they are adding quotes? Explanations are needed to remove quotes. If a quote is from a notable person, and has a reliable source, you can’t take I down just because you disagree with the views expressed by the quote. “Wikiquote is a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works...” ~Main Page~ "

 * "I’m not sure how any of this answers what I wrote." (in response to MonsterHunter32)

 * "No more of this time-wasting dispute here. I don't want my talk page to be used to call people vandals, liars, etc..... "

 * "Stop with the misleading edit summaries (and now section headings too). "

 * "and IF you revert this again you WILL be BLOCKED."

 * "it certainly IS censorship to ATTEMPT to allow ONLY one side to a discussion "

 * "I am sick of you trying to drag me into it. Never bother me again, about this or anything else. If you persist, I will take this to administrators and you can explain it to them. Leave me alone. "

 * "if you keep this up you will be blocked"

 * I have attempted to solve it with discussion with him, but by his refusal of even the most elementary things, like giving full reasoning for each deleted quote on the talkpage, he is making it extremely difficult. What really is needed, and I asked many times for this, are comments from other users on the quotes. Please see Talk:India for my latest attempt to ask others for comments.

 * Ultimately, I agree with what another editor has said on the Admin noticeboard:

 * "If MonsterHunter32 has reasonable objections to the quotes themselves, he may discuss them on the article's talk page, but not remove them unilaterally. He may proceed to remove the disputed quotes from the articles only if in those discussions he manages to get some other editor to agree with him" (that other editor should either be a Wikiquote admin or an editor with more than one year of experience at Wikiquote.)

 * Please let me know if you too agree with this.

 * Wikiquote is not prepared to handle persistent, disruptive editors like who by his own admission is "constantly monitoring" me, attacking me for alleged religious bias or my alleged religious beliefs, and reverting all my additions with poor excuses that in most cases he refuses even to discuss. It cannot be in Wikiquotes interest when such editors can by constant edit warring and refusal to discussion get away with censoring and blanking quotes. --Jedi3 (talk) 01:16, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Jedi3's disruptive edits
What does User:Jedi3 hopes to achieve by repeatedly complaining instead of any actual cooperation? When I discuss he either abruptly leaves or keeps on repeating the same things. He keeps on edit-warring over and over and even started edit-warring right after User:UDScott block on him expired.

All of the "complains" of his based on poor fact- reading and hiding the truth again. Oh he doesn't mention some of the comments made by other users about him:

 * User:Jedi3 wrongly keeps claiming Template:Remove doesn't allow for removal of quotes and mandates moving and discussion. But I found out he hasn't read it properly. Templat:Remove itself says the quotes can be removed with edit summaries. Moving and discussing is required in almost all cases. It says: Quotes should never be removed without a comment in the edit summary, and should almost always be moved to the Talk page with a note that they were removed from the article, giving full reasoning.
 * Despite moving and discussing not being mandatory in every case, I've often tried to discuss and move one article at a time but Jedi3 keep son edit-warring over one quote. SO HOW WILL I GET TIME FOR OTHER QUOTES? SO while he claims I am "not moving and discussing", he forgets that i can't do everything at once and the major cause is his disruption asides from being humanely impossible to discus everything at once. He's a vandal who's making up claims like he did abut Template:Remove who needs to be immediately blocked.

 * While Jedi3 is talking about "comments against me', jedi3 forgets User:Kalki has criticized his behavior as well.

 * What Jedi3 forgot to mention User:DanielTom said about me at AN, "Jedi3 is obviously concerned that MonsterHunter32 is actively censoring quotes critical of Islam and wikihounding him." How? The only thing most of the articles relate to Islam is that the Muslim rulers were Muslims or some of their actions may be because of Islamic fundamentalism. Most quotes I removed are not about Islam except maybe a few non-notable ones added by Jedi3 which he added into articles of Muslim rulers or a particular religious conflict/riot like Noakhali riots.
 * He claims it despite me adding quotes about negative acts done by Muslims. At Aurangzeb I myself added a quote talking about temple destruction by Aurangzeb. Even at Noakhali riots I added a quote holding a Muslim responsible. I added them only because they were notable. Also I made few changes to ancient India as well. I however only remove content that is clearly not notable or memorable. The user has similarly made quotes against Christian colonial rulers in India only to further his agenda. Even if his quotes are not memorable he has added them.

 * While User:Jedi3 talks about "Bare-minimum", he doesn't stop to the do the most disruptive thing: Edit-warring. What's more he resumed edit-warring right after UDSCOTT warned him, he edit-warred at, , , ,  and.

 * He has also made some utterly false claims of "blanking", even though my removal of his quotes didn't involve more than 1 or 2 quotes and removed only a small part of the article. Some of his utterly false claims of "blanking" are here, here and here.

 * As earlier mentioned after UDScott blocked him for a week, 'he resumed edit-warring right after the block expired. See here, a sly attempt to befool others in edit summary at Aurangzeb of "article under construction", at Malabar rebellion.

 * There is nothing wrong in checking another editor when they are being disruptive like User:Jedi3. And what I actually said was me categorically proving I never censored him. I was checking whether his edits are non-notable and non-memorable. "While Jedi3 keeps claiming censorship, he knows I've checked many of his recent edits on other articles where we don't have any issues. I've mostly removed quotes from his older articles. But even there I've let some of his quotes remain there. That's because on any article whenever I've found his quotes are really memorable and notable, I have not removed them."

 * He claims I "refused to discuss". This despite me discussing at Talk:Somnath temple, Talk:Aurangzeb and Talk:India. At all of those talk pages my comment is the latest. You can check them.

 * I already suggested at talk:India, let's discuss all quotes one by one at the relevant article talk pages. He refuses to do so.

 * Jedi3 keeps on smearing and making false allegations of "censorship" just because I disagree with many of his quotes being relevant. That too me telling it plainly I have only removed non-memorable/non-notable quotes: "While Jedi3 keeps claiming censorship, he knows I've checked many of his recent edits on other articles where we don't have any issues. I've mostly removed quotes from his older articles. But even there I've let some of his quotes remain there. That's because on any article whenever I've found his quotes are really memorable and notable, I have not removed them."

 * He says I'm done numerous "personal attacks" against User:DanielTom and User:Kalki. I never committed any personal attacks like Jedi3 who started calling me a vandal and claimed I was censoring baselessly. And Jedi3 doesn't reveal DanieTom needlessly kept on edit-warring with me at Everybody Draw Mohammed Day despite me already inviting him to talk and offering him a compromise. What's more he revealed his reason to be a baseless belief of me attempting to censor even though I already offered to talk right after his first revert.

 * After Daniel Tom reverted me at Talk:India for removing Jedi3's vandal comments of baseless accusations and taking the issue to an entirely unrelated article while the actual discussion should have been at Talk:Aurangzeb and other articles where I actually removed his quotes. His actions were very similar to Jedi3 by baselessly accusing me of censorship despite me discussing and compromising despite the quote being not notable, I asked him not to take sides with jedi3 over any ideolgical affinity. I told DanielTom about this and also tried to prevent another edit-war at Talk:India like it happened on Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. I also told him the same at his own talk page.

 * After Kalki reverted me twice at talk:India and warned me, that was my last revert. I didn't start edit-warring and reverting like Jedi3. At User talk:Kalki I asked him to effectively moderate and enforce the rules by blocking Jedi3 for his consistent disruptive editing. He kept saying he didn't have time but I pointed out I already made Jedi3's disruptive edits clear and if he moderated then this place would have been a much better place as i believe Jedi3 is not fit for here. I asked him to act against Jedi3 as the latter kept edit-warring right after after being warned and blocked by UDScott.

 * Jedi3 has no problem in making false claims about quotes. Sikandar Butshikan, indirectly admitting to verbatim to verbatrim copying from Wikipedia before checking the source, even though it isn't about Martand temple.  He also added a quote at Muhammad bin Qasim that isn't about the topic. He made up a false reason to remove a quote at Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent. Or he keeps making up his quotes eloquent, poignant, witty etc despite the "quotes" not even falling at all within the definition. He does this just to have his edits there at all costs. I've told him several times about this including here.

 * He has no problem in his reverts removing my quotes and later not adding them in "some cases" as he claims, but he only has a problem when I reverted his edits to stop his attempt at edit-warring at Aurangzeb.

 * Jedi3 tried to justify his edit-warring claiming he had no choice as "I wasn't discussing". This despite me telling him that I already tried to discuss. I never said there will be no discussion ever. All i said was I couldn't discuss all of them at once. I have already asked him to discuss the quotes one a time.

 * He keeps on telling me to follow Template:Remove. But when I asked him to follow WQ:WQ, he indicated he won't and said it wasn't a policy or guideline. template:Remove doesn't claim to be a policy or guideline either. Regardless I've posted several quotes and tried to discuss with him, But Jedi3 keeps making false claims and abruptly stops discussion.

 * DanielTom called me "annoying" which is an extremely negative connotation and a real personal attack. I told him about this. Then Jedi3 claims it is not a personal attack and calls my comments annoying. So I told him that annoying means irritating and harassing or making angry. i asked him tocontrol himself if he felt so.

 * Just a Regular New Yorker laimed in his comment that quotes canot be removed if they are sourced. He doesn't seem to have read tyhe policies.
 * Except Wikiquote, WQ:Q and Template:Fame saying this is for notable quotes. And the Template:Remove Jedi3 keeps talking about itself says the quotes can be removed with edit summaries. Moving and discussing is required in almost all cases. "Quotes should never be removed without a comment in the edit summary, and should almost always be moved to the Talk page with a note that they were removed from the article, giving full reasoning." I've often tried to discuss and move one article at a time but Jedi3 keep son edit-warring over one quote. SO HOW WILL I GET TIME FOR OTHER QUOTES?

 * Jedi3 points to the comment "I see no creditable reason for eliminating a page .... because the creator of the page is disliked...." Except I never said such a thing. But I do dislike is Jedi3's disruptive edits and him not giving two hoots about notability.

 * "*"Stop with the misleading edit summaries (and now section headings too). " Jedi3 doesn't explain where it is from. I never made any misleading edit summaries unlike DanielTom's claims. i had plainly explained it was "vandalism" by Jedi3 at Talk:India. I [explained clearly Jedi3's issues were not related to [[Talk:India]] and he was not discussing where the quotes were removed from.

 * "it certainly IS censorship to ATTEMPT to allow ONLY one side to a discussion " Will Jedi3 say it is Kalki claiming so about me removing his unrelated vandal comments at Talk:India which had nothing to do with India. I had even explained this to him in my only revert of his unlike jedi3 who still edit-wars after being warned or blocked. And I have repatedly said I don't remove any quote I found notable: "While Jedi3 keeps claiming censorship, he knows I've checked many of his recent edits on other articles where we don't have any issues. I've mostly removed quotes from his older articles. But even there I've let some of his quotes remain there. That's because on any article whenever I've found his quotes are really memorable and notable, I have not removed them."

 * Also after he failed to prove his quotes as notable, he keeps on falsely calling them eloquent, poignant, witty, pithy etc despite me already explaining to him at Talk:Somnath temple as well as talk:Aurangzeb that his quotes aren't even near to what he claims. This is aside from the fact that especially a user merely calling something as notable or poignant or witty doesn't make it notable. But then again he doesn't even care about the dictionary meaning of the words he's talking about. From Oxford dictionary Poignant - "evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret". Witty - "showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humor." Anyone who reads a dictionary can understand he's making it up about any of his edits being eloquent, poignant or witty etc. yet he makes the same claim at Talk:India yet again despite already being made aware his quotes are not near what he's falsely claiming them to be.

 * All policies say this website is about notable quotes. Wikiquote - "Wikiquote is an accurate and comprehensive collection of notable quotations." Note it doesn't say simply sourced. WQ:Q - "Notability of the author is not required for a quote to be included in a page on a theme. It is the quote itself that must be notable." Template:Fame - "Thank you for your effort to contribute to our project, but Wikiquote exists for the collecting of notable quotations of famous people and famous works, not for the posting of quotations of people not yet famous in some field." Yet he keeps on using the notability of author to say it should be included, despite WQ:Q saying "With regards to quotes about people, notability of a person as the subject of quote can be even more difficult to quantify, but it is clear that a person may be notable as a subject, even if that person has said nothing quotable." Not to mention the quote itself being notable criteria mentioned by it as well.

Jedi3 needs to be blocked for his constant disruption, caring for nothing except POV-pushing at all costs even if becomes disruptive, bad faith edits and accusations as well as false claims. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 06:41, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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