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"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."
Defeat
"There is no pure free-market economy."
Economy
"I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest."
Power
"A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created."
War
"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."
Government
"I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions."
Mistake
"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."
Democracy
"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal."
Equality
"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."
Religion
"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."
Man
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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Personal Development
"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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Personal Development
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