#rangers

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. ↗

— George McGovern

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#handicap #i #most #painful #presence

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

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#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises