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"Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?"
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."
"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."
"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."
"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."
"Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad."
"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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"I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth."
"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint."
"Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence."
"If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed."
"People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true."
"Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?"
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