"I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else."
-William Howard Taft
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"We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement."
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"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."
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"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain."
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"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."
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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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