"Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power."
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"It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party."
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"A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient."
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"A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit."
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"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
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"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history."
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"To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together."
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"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."
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"Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion."
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"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
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"Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves."
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"We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government."
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"One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption."
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
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"Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate."
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"The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions."
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"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state..."
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"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
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"If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends."
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