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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering – I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse – is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.

I thought using the Ayatollah’s money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

The honor of a nation is its life.

This is why we feel that democracy’s important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.