"Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it."
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"I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other."
"It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power."
"He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth."