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Otto von Bismarck

"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

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"A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill."

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"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."

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"Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics."

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"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."

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"Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest."

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"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."

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