{"author":"Dan Groat","author_id":"Dan+Groat","total_quotes":82,"quotes":[{"text":"Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["power","powerful","succeed","success","weak","weakness"],"id":13087,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["hope","reality","reality-of-life","reality"],"id":20705,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"He had no ability to give up. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to quit, he couldn’t. It wasn’t in him. It never had been.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["ability","perseverance","quit","quitting"],"id":26267,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["dumb","dumbness","enlightenment","journalism","lie","lies","lies-politics","news","politician","reporter","reporters","smart","smarter","truth","well-informed"],"id":37777,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["prejudice","spirit","weak","weakness"],"id":40783,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["beginning","death","die","dying","knowledge","lose","lose-your-life","losing","losing-your-life","rish","wisdom"],"id":41600,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"A government that thinks it can remedy personal failure is an intrusion in everybody’s life. No law is going to cure a human’s lack of physical or mental effectiveness. I’d rather see democracy promote strength than reward weakness.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["failure","government","lack-of-effectiveness","strength","weakness"],"id":45214,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"We learn to love when we’re young. If we learn hating better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["hate","haters","love","racism"],"id":59860,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["animal","human","humanity","need","needing","needs","needs-and-wants","smart","smarter","strong","stronger","want","wanting","wants"],"id":60700,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["hearing","individualism","listening","uniqueness","uniqueness-of-individual"],"id":61933,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":82,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}