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" The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. "

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" The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. "

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" By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. "

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" Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers. "

" Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "

" I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. "

" India has never played politics with national security. "

" Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation rather than polarized by hysteria and politics. "

" If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. "

" America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are. "

" When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place. "

" Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace. "

" I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. "

" Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" I'm not one of those actors that knows everything about politics. "

" In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. "

" Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. "

" Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse. "

" Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros. "

" No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism. "

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" It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems. "

" I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. "

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" A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. "

" Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. "

" A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. "

" If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters. "

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" There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. "