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The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

William J. Clinton

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William J. Clinton
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 19
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