"Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them."
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"Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator"
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"A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts."
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"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."
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"Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen."
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"What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden."
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"There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation."
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"The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money."
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"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness."
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"For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity."
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"The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself."
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"It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public."
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"The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours."
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"A politician... one that would circumvent God."
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"Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once."
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"it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people."
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"In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy."
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"Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections."
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"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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