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Most governments lie to each other. That’s the way business gets done.

— Robert Gates

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Tough-minded, realistic, and very pro-American.

I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades

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

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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.

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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