Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
April 28, 2003 at the annual Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Day fund raising dinner in Connecticut.
Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)
“The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.”
"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
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Variant: Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Source: Howards End (1910), Ch. 15
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