"The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign."

-- Hugh Sidey

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“Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.”
“Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.”
“A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."”

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“Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is controlled falling. Itâ€™s the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.”
“I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”
“The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.”
“Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.”
“All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.”

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