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Politics isn’t just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo to serve the common good and to leave this nation better than we found it.

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can’t be managed through the politics of personality and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office – that all of the world’s problems aren’t his predecessor’s fault.

Sarah Palin Politics Quotes
So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

Dennis Bergkamp Positive Quote
I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

Joseph Force Crater Travel Quotes
I mean we’re going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I’m alive.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to quote ‘impose democracy.’ We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Paul Wolfowitz War Quotes
But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

To finance this trade deficit the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks businesses and real estate to the rest of the world.

Martin Feldstein Finance Quotes
It is said that power corrupts but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin Power Quote