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“Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. They vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen "their" company. The two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property - ownership and responsibility - are separated. Those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own.”

“The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.”

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Author:Claire McCaskill

“... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.”

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Author:Stephanie Coontz

“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”

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Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

“For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.”

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Author:Karl Rove

“Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his”

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Author:Tony Benn

“Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.”

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Author:Meg Greenfield

“Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?”

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Author:Phil Ochs