Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided.
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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
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My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
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I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
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We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.
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