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Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a philanderer; nevertheless, he pushed aides to use his opponent Wendell Wilkie's affairs to hurt him. He even tutored aides on how to spread rumors without getting caught.


John Dickerson

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JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA