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“There are no principles, only events. ”
― Talleyrand

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
― Henry Kissinger

“He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees.”
― Jean Edward Smith, FDR

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.”
― Henry Kissinger

“It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
― Henry Kissinger

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.”
― William F. Buckley