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Let the sun shine in.

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.

The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.