"The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it."
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"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."
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"The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected."
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"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."
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"The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife."
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"The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it."
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"It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence."
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"Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce."
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"The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
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"Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good."
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"War is the enemy of all mankind."
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"Money honey, if you want to get along with me."
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"Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue."
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"You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete."
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"If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory."
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"As for our majority... one is enough."
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"Party is organized opinion."
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"There is no gambling like politics."
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"He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued."
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"It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave."
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