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" Party honesty is party expediency. "

Grover Cleveland

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" Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. "

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John F. Kennedy

" The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. "

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