Hari Kondabolu Quotes
Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
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If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
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Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
