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Luke Ford

"In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed."

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"There is no gambling like politics."

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

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

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

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

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"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."

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"To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true."

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"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."

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"To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."

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"Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress. This is the approach that gave the world, leaders of glorious characters such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Subhas Chandra Bose (the actual man behind India's Independence), Vasil Levski (the man who liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman oppression), Nelson Mandela and many more. These people were technically politicians too, but unlike the majority of the politicians ofmodern society, their approach to politics was what it should be in a real system of politics."

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"Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions."
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"I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day."
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"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David."
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"Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused."
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"Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone."
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"I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week."
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