"The new political gospel: public office is private graft."
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"From politics it was an easy step to silence."
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"I'm an idealist without illusions."
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"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
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"The duty of an Opposition is to oppose."
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"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
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"When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion."
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"Never underestimate the ego of a politician."
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"My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance."
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"It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken"
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"Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient."
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"There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident."
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"Information upon points of practical politics."
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"The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest."
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"I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College."
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"We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within."
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"Politics is far more complicated than physics."
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"Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything."
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"...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely."
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"So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean."
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