All communities are apt to look to government for too much. Even in our own country, where its powers and duties are so strictly limited, we are prone to do so, especially at periods of sudden embarrassment and distress.
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Expecting too much can be a rational response to systemic failures elsewhere.
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the le…
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It …
Diejenige Regierung ist die beste, die sich uberflussing macht.
Our job as entertainers is to ease some pain. So to begin with, you have to know what and where the pain is. I've never campaigned before and I wanted to be da…