Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without posses…

P. J. O'Rourke
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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians. ✨ All the Trouble in the World. Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.
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