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• Unlike great thinkers and great artists, the most effective political leaders must often yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise.
• I realize that the MX missile is none of our concern.
  I realize that the whole point of living in a democracy is that we pay professional congresspersons to concern themselves with things like the MX missile so we can be free to concern ourselves with getting hold of the plumber....
• I realize that the MX missile is none of our concern.
  I realize that the whole point of living in a democracy is that we pay professional congresspersons to concern themselves with things like the MX missile so we can be free to concern ourselves with getting hold of the plumber....
• As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.
  The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism....
• Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.
  -- Proverbs 3:27...
• Persistence in one opinion has never been considered a merit in political leaders. -- Cicero
• Why is it that political leaders don't seem to have all the answers until they write their memoirs?
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