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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ↗

— Richard Whately

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Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

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Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ↗

— E. B. White

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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. ↗

— Theodore White

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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie. ↗

— Theodore White

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Politics in America is the binding secular religion. ↗

— Theodore White

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With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. ↗

— Theodore White

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I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done. ↗

— Meg Whitman

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