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James Q. Wilson

"There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now."

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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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"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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"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."
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"Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims."
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"In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue."
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"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."
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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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"Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character."
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"I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape."
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"But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government."
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