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• ...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number…
• As the family goes, so go the children.
• The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
• No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
• The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
• Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
• Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose…
• If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
• The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and…
• When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are…
• Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It…
• The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that…

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