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"There are no more liberals They've all been mugged."
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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."

"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."

"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"

"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."

"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."
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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."

"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."

"I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care."

"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution."

"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."

"There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want."
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