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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professiona

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter

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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. – Felix Frankfurter

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Whats an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesnt know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesnt admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesnt really know how much. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists. – Marcel Masse

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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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