The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
| Buchi Emecheta, Novelist (1944) |
| John Gardner, Novelist (1933) |
| Josh Hartnett, Actor (1978) |
| Norman Jewison, Director (1926) |
| John B. Keane, Playwright (1928) |
| Ali Landry, Model (1973) |
| John Cotton Dana, Author (1929) |
| Ruth St. Denis, Dancer (1968) |
| Robert Green Ingersoll, Lawyer (1899) |

