“[H]aving problems is not a license to vote stupid. People need the tractor to plow the damn field, now.”

As quoted in "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard
2010s

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