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"....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent."
"A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting."
"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man."
"The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election."
"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."
"The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate."
"I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran."
"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."
"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
"Politics is largely a matter of heart."
"Politics is the science of urgencies."
"Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow."
"To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors."
"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."
"I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow."
"Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?"
"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
"God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles."
"The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography."
