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There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

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If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

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In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

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Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: December 27th, 1930

Died: May 13th, 1999

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