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• The first year he talks and she listens. The second year she talks and he listens.
  The third year they both talk and the neighbors listen. -- Donald McGill...
• The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
• An election year is the time politicians want to help us out of all the trouble they got us into in the first place.
• A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. -- James Clarke
• I feel that this [1981] is my first year, that next year is an election yea
  hat the third year is the mid point and that the fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the last two years, I'll be a candidate again....
• The effectiveness of a politician varies in inverse proportion to his commitment to principle.
  -- Sam Shaffe...
• The first year [1977] I spent getting my family moved to Washington.
  The second year I ran for re-election. Then as soon as I was elected, I started running for the Senate....
• To know Edina is to reject it. -- Dudley Riggs, "The Year the Grinch Stole the Electio
• The accessibility, during recovery of small parts that fall from the workbench, varies directly with the size of the part -- and inversely with its importance to the completion of work underway.
  -- The First Spare Parts Principle...