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• It is impossible for an effective political leader to tell the truth all the time.
  Complete honesty is not a useful virtue for a politician....
• Keeping Still. Keeping his back still So that he no longer feels his body.
  He goes into the courtyard And does not see his people. No blame....
• The leader must know. The leader must know that he knows.
  The leader must let everyone else know that he knows....
• We shall march prospering,--not thro' his presence
  Songs may inspirit us,--not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,--while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire....
• SANDLOTTER, n. A vertebrate mammal holding the political views of Denis Kearney, a notorious demagogue of San Francisco, whose audiences gathered in the open spaces (sandlots) of the town.
  True to the traditions of his species, this leader of the proletariat was finally bought off by his law-and-order enemies, living prosperously silent and dying impenitently rich....
• Bush and Gorbachev decided to get themselves frozen for a hundred years to see how the current political situation resolved itself.
  After the time was up they were thawed, and started to read newspapers to catch up on the situation....
• A boy scout troop went on a hike. Crossing over a stream, one of the boys dropped his wallet into the water.
  Suddenly a carp jumped, grabbed the wallet and tossed it to another carp....
• A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
  -- Harry S Truma...
• I would not like to be a political leader in Russia.
  They never know when they're being taped. -- Richard Nixon I love America....