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As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

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Steve Forbes
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 18
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Morristown
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Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr.
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