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Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.

— James Carville In Had enough?: A handbook for fighting back (2003)

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John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.

When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.

Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.

Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.

Sign on the wall in the 1992 Clinton campaign headquarters : The economy, stupid.

The Agenda (1994)

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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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