Tom Wicker
Quotes by Tom Wicker
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Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.
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Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.
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Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it.
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There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.
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Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.
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Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.
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He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being alone, at the top but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.
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