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"Politics in America is the binding secular religion."
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"Politicians look for interests not people."

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie."

"His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen."

"Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers."

"I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories."

"There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign."

"If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet."
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