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- The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
- A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
- People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
- He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
- David Frost
- The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
- Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
- Peter Borden
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