"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
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"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.“
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"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."
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"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."
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"Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues."
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"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose."
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