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A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth - some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.

— Michael Kinsley

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I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

Ambition can never be naked in a political campaign, it must be clothed in deceit.

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Bad principles are not a good substitute for no principles.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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