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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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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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

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A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit...

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