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• Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. -- Bob Edward
• I've always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
• War is the last refuge of incompetent statesmen.
• Statesmen tell you what is true even though it may be unpopular.
  Politicians will tell you what is popular, even though it may be untrue....
• I*... am undergoing `male bonding' with your father.
  "DADDY!" "...Apparently, it involves repeated vomiting!...
• We are holding Elvis's brain hostage on Planet Zork. -- Bloom County
• He was sweet and sincere and giving and good... AND A CHERISHED NEIGHBOR UNDESERVING OF SUCH A FATE!
  ! "Nevertheless, better him than me. Amen....
• The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Preface to Corruption and Intolerance...
• If not for politicians, we wouldn't NEED assault rifles!