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“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.”

John W. Gardner

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One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

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All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and…

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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

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The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

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I would like to have campaign spending limits.

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