You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
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