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Politics really involves getting people to vote for you, and people vote for you when they are dependent on you. To the extent that people become self-reliant and can feel they're perfectly capable of taking care of themselves, to that extent do you lose your hold on their votes.
— Thomas Sowell, Firing Line: The Economic Lot of Minorities (Buckley) (1981)
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