They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.

Adlai Stevenson
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  1. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams

  2. Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth. - Paul Krugman

  3. Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten. - Oliver Hassencamp

  4. What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree. - John Brunner

  5. A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong. - William Arnot

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  1. But the Wisconsin tradition meant more than a simple belief in the people. It also meant a faith in the application of intelligence and reason to the problems of society. It meant a deep conviction that the role of government was not to stumble along...

  2. We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give...

  3. I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock and as he reached the climax of his exhortation a man in the front row got up and said 'O Lord use me. Use me O Lord -...

  4. No gains without pains.

  5. Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.

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