02/26/2013
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"We were all inspired by Tunisia in 2011, where a simple merchant, vegetable seller, started an Arab Spring."
"the idea that those who engage in legal business actually carry around huge quantities of cash is absurd."
"The value of the dollar as a worldwide reserve currency is certainly not helped by us having the charade we are having here about whether we will even pay our bills."
"Every dollar that we spend helping improve the economy of Myanmar/Burma increases the power of the regime and is taken away from the poor people in other places in the world, particularly Africa."