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"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
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"Politicians look for interests not people."
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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."
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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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"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."
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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."
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"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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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
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"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
Government
"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
Poetry
"If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone."
Job
"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!""
Boys
"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."
Sacrifice
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."
Friendship
"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."
Leadership
"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
Politics
"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement."
Perfectionism
"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes."
Justice
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