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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they dont know what the

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they dont know what they are conserving. – Robertson Davies

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. – Robertson Davies

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. – Peggy Noonan

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I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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It isnt fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that shes taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her. – Dee Dee Myers

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The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. – Benjamin Disraeli

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