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"I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret."
"I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared"
"I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
"Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed."
"The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery."
"Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us."
"I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides."
"College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity."
"But actors with political views are a dime a dozen."
"I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent."
"Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda."
"I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain."
"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."
"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."
"Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting."
"Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius."
"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time."
"The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion."
"I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times, I don't know why Republicans would advocate that advocating for comprehensive immigration reform is somehow a political solution for the Republicans losing a percentage of Hispanics. I probably have less appetite for this than either the Senate or colleagues in the House, certainly the Democrats and most likely members of the Republican Conference. They are still wrestling with trying to get their education up to a level where they can actually advocate for policy."
