Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens van der Post

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey

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Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil.
Golda Meir