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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarme

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H. L. Mencken

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Yes is a far more potent word than no in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say. – Dick Morris

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I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. – Lord Byron

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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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