A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
George F. Will (born May 4, 1941), quoted in A Ford Not A Lincoln (1975), Richard Reeves, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ch, 1 ; as cited by The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, p. 707.
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