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"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory."
Politics
"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."
People
"I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me."
President
"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."
Time
"The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever."
Time
"The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us."
Trust
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."
Poetry
"I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."
Legal
"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week."
Family
"You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?"
Age
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