OMG: Paul Ryan's "empty soul" line plagiarized from Captain Picard?! [View all]

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Paul Ryan today at CPAC

Paul Ryan: Democrats Offer Americans a ‘Full Stomach and an Empty Soul’

Mitt Romney’s old running mate rips liberals over income inequality, saying they want to hook people on welfare.

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Ryan insinuated that the Democratic Party is selling the American people a welfare state. "What the left is offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul...People don't just want a life of comfort. They want a life of dignity."



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/06/paul-ryan-democrats-offer-americans-a-full-stomach-and-an-empty-soul.html

Captain Picard, Star Trek, "Chain of Command (Part II)":

Meanwhile on Celtris III, Gul Madred is speaking with his daughter about whether Humans have parents. Picard is sitting in a spotlight in a red robe-like gown. Picard tries to get under Madred's skin by questioning his motives for bringing his daughter to such an installation, let alone allow her to see her father interrogating a prisoner. They banter back and forth about military power and its role in their civilizations. Madred tells his prisoner that because of the Cardassian military, his daughter will never go hungry. Picard turns this on him by saying, "Her belly may be full, but her spirit will be empty."


http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command,_Part_II_(episode)