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Avengers: The Initiative #26

Constrictor – Look.  I’m far from the only American to lose limbs serving their country.  Like them, I’m proud of what I’ve done.

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The Hood – Taskmaster’s right.  You’re a natural.  Comparing us to the troops.  That bit about you holding your kids… you should get an Oscar.

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Ultragirl – So the end justifies the means?

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The Hood – When you see some guy who ran a company into the ground walk away with forty million, is he wearing a skull mask and underwear outside his pants?  No.  He’s wearing a suit, and nine times out of ten, even though he’s into shady crap up to his eyeballs, he gets away scot-free.  The guys in power rip off the public a hell of a lot worse than we ever did.  But now —  finally — we are the guys in power.

Dark Wolverine #76

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. -Niccolo Machiavelli

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Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel #2

Dum Dum Dugan – Jackie Robinson… Cassius Clay… the world wasn’t ready for him.  It was a different time.  A different world.

Tony Stark – That doesn’t excuse it.

Dum Dum Dugan – Never said it did.  But this wasn’t baseball or boxing.  It was politics.  Different animal, different rules.  You of all people should know that.  A black man with the power he had during that time in history made people feel… uncomfortable.

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Kruetz – You hypocritical liberals are all alike.  You want the world to read like a mother’s day card.  But you don’t want to do what’s necessary to keep it safe.  A safe world costs something.  Someone, somewhere has to pay the piper when the bill comes due.

Tony Stark – Machiavellianism is often used as a euphemism for corruption.

Kruetz – You would know.