It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris. (Madeleine M. Kunin)

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

Madeleine M. Kunin

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