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'People are at least as smart as goats ... Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple of times, they quit trying to jump it.'
TRENT LOTT, Republican Senator from Mississippi, on how to deal with illegal immigration on the U.S. border

'If it was up to me, I would've seized their cars and crushed them, but it's not legal for me to do that.'
KEN LIVINGSTONE, mayor of London, on American diplomats who are refusing to pay...