"Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries."

-- Richard V. Allen

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“George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.”
“Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.”
“If you reach the people nobody wants, God will give you the people everybody wants.”
“The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.”
“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”
“Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys.”
“I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.”
“Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.”

Source : Red Smith (1983). “The Red Smith reader”, Vintage

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