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Pakistan is the only government consisting simultaneously of arsonists and firefighters.

— John R. Bolton

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Individual liberty is the whole purpose of political life, and I thought it was threatened then and I think it's threatened now.

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

Appearance only takes you so far.

The Room Where It Happened (2020)

I cannot offer a comprehensive theory of the Trump Administration's transformation because none is possible. Washington's conventional wisdom on Trump's trajectory, however, is wrong.

The Room Where It Happened (2020)

I've heard over and over that people don't vote on the basis of foreign policy.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

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

James Madison

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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