instant reply to Mr. Ehrlichman asking, "How do you know that, Mr. Chairman?" after Senator Ervin insisted that 18 USC 2511 on foreign intelligence would not allow the President of the United States to authorize a burglary to obtain the opinion of Ellsberg's psychiatrist about his intellectual or emotional or psychological state, as claimed by Ehrlichman. Tuesday, July 24, 1973. * 1973
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Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Syndicated column https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19961212&id=1zsdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SKYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6510,2218257&hl=en, retrieved from The Tuscaloosa News, December 13, 1996. <br class="br">1980s–1990s
“Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 235.
“I don't sing my mother tongue
No, this is not a love song”
Till Lindemann (1963) German industrial metal musician
"Amerika"
Reise, Reise (2004)
“We shared a common tongue, but my language was a different language from theirs.”
Richard Wright book Black Boy
Black Boy (1945)
Context: All my life I have done nothing but feel and cultivate my feelings; all their lives they had done nothing but strive for petty goals, the trivial material prizes of American life. We shared a common tongue, but my language was a different language from theirs.
Russell Baker (1925–2019) writer and satirst from the United States
"Introduction to 'We're Losing Contact, Captain'" (p.353)
There's a Country in My Cellar (1990)
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
Source: A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 3
“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”
Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian
As quoted in With Truth as Our Sword (2005) by C E Sylvester, p. 205
“The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
[31 December 2004, http://whedonesque.com/comments/5677, "David Greenwalt's 'Profit' coming to DVD in 2005", Whedonesque.com, 2008-08-29]
