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"Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation."
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"The government can make laws but they can't make people live by these laws."
"I contested elections on the issue of development. It's my conviction, it's my commitment. Youngsters of the country believe in development. And it is development that is the solution to all the problems."
"When some claim demarcation and "regulation, others fancy "deregulation, preferring foxes guarding the henhouse or chicken yards with free chickens and free foxes. Friend or foe, hen or fox, anyone can have a go. ['This far']"
"Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces."
"Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders."
"Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't."
"If a country complains that they don't have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to."
"Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility."
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
"On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction."
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"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings."
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"He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience."
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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