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"Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot."
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"Politics is compromise."
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"Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO."
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"The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses."
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"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."
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"I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do."
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"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."
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"This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first."
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"She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!"
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"A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it."
People
"Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors."
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"Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot."
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"Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters."
Thought
"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less."
Society
"I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough."
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"The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision."
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"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."
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