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"Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies."
"Politics is motion." John Sears"
"What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?"
"Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises."
"An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment."
"He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew"
"Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness."
"Now even reformers needed political machines."
"Television was suppressing their freedom not to know."
"To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed."
"Do what you are doing. Monastic motto"
"Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure."
"He fetishized limits."
"One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew"