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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

— Eugene McCarthy

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I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

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We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

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