“Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People’s Republic of Himself.”

—  Mark Steyn

" The slyer virus: The West's anti-westernism http://newcriterion.com:81/archive/20/feb02/msteyn.htm", The New Criterion Vol. 20, No. 6, February 2002

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