Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. – Richard M. Nixon

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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. – Edmund Burke

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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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