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An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1956

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. - Chester Bowles

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. - Frank Dane

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. - Anna Quindlen

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one! - Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line





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