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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

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I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.

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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

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Please don't kill me!

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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

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It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

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Experts are just trained dogs.

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The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

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The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

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You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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The woman who knew that I had dyslexia - I never interviewed her.

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