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"People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'"
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."
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"The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics."
"By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire."
"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
"Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them."
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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments."
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