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If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

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How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and...more

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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-s...more

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As government expands, liberty contracts.

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I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

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Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

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Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.