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If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

American Politics, Business, Ifs, Small, Think, Thinking

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

Hilton, Hospitality, Hotel, Smell, Tears

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Life, Party, People, Survived, Titanic, Two

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

Elders, Honor, Imperative, Political, Primitive, World

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

Sawdust, Split, Splits, Tried

Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

Campaign, Campaigns, Might, Remember, Say, Say Anything

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

Declare, Defense, National, National Defense, War

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Liberty, Bureaucracy, Threat, Greatest, Efficient

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

America, Fabric, Let, Sound, Trumpet

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

Made, Morally, Necessary, Politically, Possible

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press. . . and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

Book, Producers, Publishers, Radio, Stations, Television

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

America, Long, Tradition, Politics, Show, Interest

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Cardinal, Men, Political, Politics, Presidency, Seven

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.

Facts, Said, Three, Three Times, Times, Washington

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

Aloof, Corrupted, Get Involved, May, Politics

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Aid, Country, Good, Men, Party, Time

The mortician interviewing the corpses

Corpses, Interviewing, Mortician, Morticians

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.

Feet, Guy, Throw, Twenties, Twenty

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Dangerous, Democracy, National, People, Political, Say

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

Accidents, Middle, Remember, Worst

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