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Hillary Clinton

BootinUp

(47,165 posts) Tue May 31, 2016, 02:35 AM May 2016

Watching an oldie but a goodie, The Pelican Brief.

I love the way it starts, with the SC Justice watching the protest. "Any signs got my name on them?" Then he gives examples of how crazy the political dialog is. "It never fails to amaze me what a man will do to get in the oval office."

Then a little later in the law school class, the professor says: "When we substitue a threat for argument or violence for principle, we allow our passion to overcome our capacity for reason. Passion and self-interest are threats to liberty."