"I played by the rules of politics as I found them."

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"There is no gambling like politics."

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

"A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government."

"For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America."

"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."

"A politician . . . one that would circumvent God."

"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

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"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."

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