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• The ship of state is the only ship that leaks from the top down.
• He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
  James Reston (about Richard Nixon)...
• Government is the only known enemy of intelligent life.
• This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
  -- James Resto...
• Government Tagline. Takes up space, no known function.
• From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's tex
  And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature....
• Look at me, Ma! I'm on top of the world! -- James Cagney ("White Heat")
• White Heat Made it ma. Top of the world! --James Cagney