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" Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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" I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along. "

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" In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics. "

" This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne. "

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" Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. "

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" I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. "

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