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The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
-- Buckminster Fuller
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday
they might force their beliefs on us.
-- Mario Cuomo
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The primary theme of SoupCon is communication. The acronym "LEO"
represents the secondary theme:
Law Enforcement Officials
The overall theme of SoupCon shall be:
Avoiding Communication with Law Enforcement Officials
-- M. Gallaher
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The problem with most conspiracy theories is that they seem to believe that
for a group of people to behave in a way detrimental to the common good
requires intent.
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The problem with this country is that there is no death penalty for
incompetence.
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The public demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit
raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
-- H.L. Mencken, "Prejudice"
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The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
-- Thomas Carlyle
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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but
because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
-- Thomas Macaulay, "History of England"
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The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it
about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that
you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?
-- Dave Barry, "On Presidential Politics"
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