A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. (Fawn M. Brodie)

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Fawn M. Brodie

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