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"In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly."
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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."
"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
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"I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care."
"Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about."
"There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want."
"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."
"If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion."
"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."
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