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"The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"[About the rhinoceros:] Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste."	Randolph Silliman Bourne
"Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice."	Richard Harris
"A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind."	Richard Hofstadter
"It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians."	Richard Ingrams
"Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave."	Richard Lamm
"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."	Richard Buckminster Fuller
"I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt."	Robert H(eron) Bork
"This administration is totally colorblind."	Ronald Reagan
"The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party."	Ronald Reagan
"Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating."	Ronald Reagan
"The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated."	Ronald Reagan
"[We seek] a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place."	Ronald Reagan
"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."	Ronald Reagan
"Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history."	Ronald Reagan
"Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would."	Ronald Reagan
"The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing."	Ronald Reagan
"Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking [and] now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage."	Ronald Reagan
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