When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first t

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. – P. J. ORourke

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Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. – James McGreevey

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