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Competence in government

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 16, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Opinion vs. facts

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 13, 2014April 30, 2019Format QuoteCategories demagogues, truthTags Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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