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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#great #had #made #many #mistakes

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#both sides #caught #ever #good #hand

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#cleaning #daily #doing #had #i

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#his #makes #opportunities #optimist #pessimist

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#country #crow #desire #eat #eating

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#government #may #needs #political #president

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#both sides #country #few #high #high office

A President cannot always be popular. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#cannot #popular #president

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras. ↗

— Margaret Truman

#conference #considered #mother #par #press

In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#doing #educating #eight #election #in the past