Quote #15

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelavent or get involved and get corrupted.

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  3. As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognitio…
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  5. Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
  6. I have left Act I, for involution And Act II. There, mired in complexity I cannot write Act III.
  7. No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
  8. 'Broken things are powerful.' Things about to break are stronger still. The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

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