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“The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don’t give politics a first thought all day long.”
― A Journey: My Political Life
― A Journey: My Political Life
“Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.”
― Twenty Years After
― Twenty Years After
“Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what’s possible, they say they can effect themselves.”
― Twenty Years After
― Twenty Years After
“Now an enemy is never so near and consequently so threatening, as when he has completely disappeared.”
― Twenty Years After
― Twenty Years After
“On these issues, the public fib. They say they want increased spending, and in theory they do—but in practice they think someone else should pay for it. However, there it is. As I used to say, the public aren’t always logical, but that’s their prerogative. They do expect their government to be, nonetheless.”
― A Journey: My Political Life
― A Journey: My Political Life
Nicholas’s 2025 Year in Books
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