Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other...

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In politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you...

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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong...

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I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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