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And yet power is real, and many things, including, very often, love, cannot be achieved without it.

There were multiple quotes from this in my last read

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“… the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity- and in political terms… necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top.”