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A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.


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He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.



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Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.



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Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.



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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.



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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.





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