Charles Krauthammer

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"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life; the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show; and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery."	Ambition, History, Life
"A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow."	Death, Time
"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it."	Age, Men, Politics
"Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing."	Miscellaneous

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