Latest Scott Simon Quotes from Interviews

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• Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial equality but often cracked down - but did crack down on the press and dissidents and Cuban gays.

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  Gay, Cracks, Kind

  "Cuba Reacts To Fidel Castro's Death". Interview with Scott Simon, kccu.org. November 26, 2016.

• Fidel Castro takes up so much space in the Cuban mind. It's hard for us to imagine as Americans - isn't it? - how much of everyday conversation he's dominated for 50 years.

  Scott Simon

  Years, Space, Everyday

  Source: www.npr.org

• Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

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  Leader, Revolutionary, Ruthless

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• Senator Sanders, of course, has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. But what about his legions of supporters?

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  Clinton, Legion, Courses

  "How Will Bernie Sanders Supporters Vote?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 24, 2016.

• As the race for president tightens, Hillary Clinton's campaign hopes to win over millions of people who voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries.

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  Winning, Race, People

  "How Will Bernie Sanders Supporters Vote?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 24, 2016.

• Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, but he won more than 12 million votes in the primaries and was respectfully and elaborately saluted by Hillary Clinton, whom he has endorsed.

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  Presidential, Nominations, Vote

  "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.

• AR-15s, in particular, are often called America's gun. They're some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting.

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  Sports, Country, Gun

  "States Move To Tighten Controversial 'Assault Weapons' Ban". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 12, 2015.

• Exactly who is this God character who is said to be all-powerful yet needs to hire lawyers to take us to court? Isn't he miffed when someone he had always considered to be a true follower turns to the legal system rather than to prayer? Why would the faithful risk making God look ridiculous by losing a trial on Earth when he is certain to win every trial in heaven?

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  Powerful, Prayer, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

• I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

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  Charlie Hebdo, Trying, Way

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

• Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

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  Charlie Hebdo, Anarchist, Clown

  Source: www.npr.org

• Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.

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  Knowing, Charlie Hebdo, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

• Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.

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  Charlie Hebdo, Kind, Anarchist

  Source: www.npr.org

• Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.

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  Charlie Hebdo, Way, Different

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

• I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life.

  Scott Simon

  Art, Pedants, Magazines

  Source: www.npr.org

• I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.

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  Appreciation, Kids, Charlie Hebdo

  Source: www.npr.org

• In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free expression around the world.

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  Expression, World, Solidarity

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.