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My godfather Timothy Leary coined the phrase `question authority`, it is one of my favorites. To question our government is the most important thing people can do right now in the US.

- Winona Ryder

(on his mock "crusade" against the Associated Press regarding his claim that coined the word "truthiness") It`s a sin of omission, is what it is. You`re not giving people the whole story about truthiness. It`s like Shakespeare still being alive and not asking him what "Hamlet" is about.

- Stephen Colbert

You`d think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

- Ira Glass

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

- Robert Welch

I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.

- Alex Nogales

Congress seems to believe that `Children are our future` is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

- Ali Khan
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With various people complaining about "price gouging'... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" '” not even when they bulldoze people`s homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.

- Thomas Sowell