Walker American Politician

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    “An evil moon bleeds drops of death.
    The earth burns brown.
    Grass shrivels and dries to a yellowish mass.
    Earth wears a dun-colored dress
    like an old woman wooing the sun to be her lover,
    be her sweetheart and her husband bound in one.”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.”
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    “My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.”
    —Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)