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• Every politician we have, liberal or conservative, who gets caught drinking or chasing women is thrown out of office.
  It's backwards. It's more dangerous to have a clean-living President with his finger on the button....
• Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
  -- William Proxmire...
• Bart: OK, here's how it goes: I'm the leader, Milhouse is my loyal sidekick, Nelson's the tough guy, Martin's the smart guy, and Todd's the quiet religious guy who ends up going crazy.
  And now, the time has come to cross this line into mystery and danger -- to step out of childhood and become men....
• Bureaucrat, n.: A politician who has tenure.
• bureaucrat, n: A politician who has tenure.
• If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
  -- Thomas Henry Huxley...
• Authority is no stronger than the man who wields it. -- Dolores E. McGuire