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An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in
small as in great matters.
-- W. Churchill
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
-- Simon Cameron
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians. When
bought they stay bought.
-- Bill Moyers
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Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no
government at all.
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"...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a
courtesy detail."
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And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, for if you hit a man
with a plowshare, he's going to know he's been hit.
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And yet, seasons must be taken with a grain of salt, for they too have
a sense of humor, as does history. Corn stalks comedy, comedy stalks
tragedy, and this too is historic. And yet, still, when corn meets
tragedy face to face, we have politics.
-- Dalglish, Larsen and Sutherland, "Root Crops and
Ground Cover"
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Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes.
Galileo: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.
-- Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo"
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Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
-- Pyrrhus
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
-- Aesop
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"Any news from the President on a successor?" he asked hopefully.
"None," Anita replied. "She's having great difficulty finding someone
qualified who is willing to accept the post."
"Then I stay," said Dr. Fresh. "I'm not good for much, but I
can at least make a decision."
"Somewhere," he grumphed, "there must be a naive, opportunistic
young welp with a masochistic streak who would like to run the most
up-and-down bureaucracy in the history of mankind."
-- R.L. Forward, "Flight of the Dragonfly"
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