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Good government is good politics and politics is good government.

— Richard J. Daley

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If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?

Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch, you lousy mother-fucker, go home.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party. One betrayed him, one denied him and one doubted him.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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