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" More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. "

Jeff Greenfield

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" My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. "

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" Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. "

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" The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. "

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" As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. "

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Professionalism

" I've learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I sit back and observe how other actors treat the totem pole of set politics. "

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" Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. "

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" If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. "

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" Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it. "

" Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life. "

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