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| #9381 | | A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you
actually look forward to the trip.
-- Caskie Stinnett, "Out of the Red"
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| #9382 | | A diplomat's life consists of three things: protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.
-- Adlai Stevenson
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| #9383 | | A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-- Winston Churchill
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| #9384 | | A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai Stevenson
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| #9385 | | A general leading the State Department resembles a dragon commanding ducks.
-- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981
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| #9386 | | A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough
to take it all away.
-- Barry Goldwater
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| #9387 | | A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
-- B. Franklin
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| #9388 | | A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest
man a century.
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| #9389 | | A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals
are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for
not going to church on Sunday.
-- Russell Baker
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| #9390 | | A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.
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